OCR Media Studies – A2 Level

Unit G324: Advanced Portfolio

Mind Map and Research

Name: Imani Ayimba-Golding Candidate Number: 1012Center Name: St. Andrew’s Catholic SchoolCenter Number:64135

Langley Vale Poster ideas

Theme Ideas• Mystery • Thriller • Chiller • Cliffhanger • Riddle

Tag Line • “Where is she”• “he's out there

somewhere, only time will tell”

• “who's the kidnapper”• “only time will tell”

Image Ideas• Little girl looking frightened • Girl facing backwards, red bow

present.

Social Media • Instagram • Facebook • Twitter

Theme Ideas • Mystery: It is a common theme

used in Soap Opera to attract the attention of the audience. It successfully draws the attention in as it makes the audience want to find out more secrets that could be exposed in the episode. It also relates very well, to the theme of our soap opera and the tagline presented on the front cover.

Tag Line • “Where is she?”: The entices the audience as they will also

want to find out where the little girl is, and it could express where the characters mind sets are, for example the wife could be wondering where her daughter is and who too her.

• “He’s out there somewhere, only time will tell”: paints a clear picture of the sense of unknown. People know it’s a man but don’t know who he is or where he is.

• “Who is the Kidnapper?”: This again lures the audience in as it is asking them the question. This will make them want to watch the show because of the attracting narrative with the mysterious aspect to it. It is too the point and states the story behind the poster.

Image Ideas• Little girl looking frightened,

with the the ribbon from her hair in the palm of a males hand: this highlights the overriding storyline. It really dramatizes the danger that the girl is in.

• Girl facing towards the downs. Back of the head showing with the bow present. Her face is not shown. This suggests that the girl is the innocent bystander.

Synergy • Synergy with Social Media: This will give us opportunities to expand the

marketing of our new Soap Opera Trailer and jump on the wagon of online streaming. On my poster I will include logos to promote other forms of media. For example I will have a Facebook, twitter, magazine logos at the top of the page. Also there will be the website for my magazine at the bottom of the page. This will ‘inform’ (Katz) the audience that our soap is on social media and across the e-media platform. This makes it easy for them to go to a social media website and find out more about the soaps.

• Synergy with your magazine: I will be using synergy with my magazine because it will help the consumers find out where they can get more information about the show.

• Point of Call Information: The point of call tells the reader when the show will be on and which channel will airing it, and explains why the poster is an essential product alongside the trailer.

Conclusion • In order to move ahead with Ancillary Product 2 I need to take the

pictures which I will use for this poster. I will have to take multiple images for the various different ideas that I have. I would need to have the pictures of Zoe on Epsom Downs, which can be gathered on the filming day. But I will also need the pictures of Zoe holding a ribbon if I decide to do that design. These pictures can be taken anytime in the near future when we start Ancillary Product 2. I will need to look for specific props, which will most likely be similar to the props that we will be using on the actual filming date, like the red ribbon. For the poster I am planning to use the same font as the title font, so there is no need for me to research different fonts to use. I will use Adobe Photoshop CS5 in order to create the poster. This is because Photoshop is a great image manipulation and design software that I have a lot of experience in using from last year at AS Level when I created by magazine.