BEECHMOUNT

OCR G324 Advanced Production

NAME:GEORGIA HUDSONCANDIDATE NUMBER:4447

Aquinas College: 33435

BRIEF

EVALUATION QUESTIONS

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or

challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

3. What have you learnt from audience feedback?

4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

By researching the history of soap operas and there conventions before we filmed, helped me understand what was involved with making our

final piece.

Conventions of soap operas...

•Film on a set not a location •Minimal makeup and ordinary clothes to make them look like the are apart ‘working class’. • costume to create a character. •Camera is a fourth wall (audience feel apart of the scene) • Big close ups on the actors faces to create emotion. Over the shoulder and shot reverse shots creates more of a intimate feel for the audience. •Disequilibrium in each episode to make the soap interesting to keep viewers.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?Q1.

How does my soap use and conform to the conventions?Q1.

High angled shots

Panning

Low angled shot

What makes your trailer soap opera?Q1.

Establishing shot

Close up

Extreme close up

Q1.How does my soap use and conform to the conventions?

Natural lighting - having filmed in a dark rooms the lighting needed to be

bright and realistic.

Minimal makeup creates realism

Close ups reveal emotion

Q1.

Over the shoulder shot

Similarities and differences between my media product and a real media product.

SIMILARITIES

DIFFERENCES

• The music sets a tone to represent the mood and emotion of the soap.

• Fast editing to build tension

• Small amounts of dialogue so the story lines don’t confuse the audience

• Title cards to inform the audience what’s going on.

• Lighting sets an atmosphere

• Costume represents the characters and their status.

• Audience can relate to storylines.

• Every story line we have is dramatic

• We are a new soap so there for we need to gain the audiences attention.

Comparison

Q1. Comparison

By having the title cards it engages the audiences

attention, informs but doesn’t give too much of the story line

away.

As a group decided to have our trailer on e4. We studied the e4 style guide and came up with a

final title card which has the logo and the whole cast on it… similarr to’ made in Chelsea's’

final title card.

ComparisonQ1.

In our soap we decided to have a homosexual, who has decided to come out gay to his

brother. We stereotyped our ‘gay’ character by dressing him in woman’s clothes to

exaggerate his sexuality.

A woman's necklace

A feminine vest

Purple shinny leggings

Zebra print sofa expressing his eccentric style.

Creating a character

By understanding soap operas conventions we mocked them and made it into a characters

profile.

A take that tattoo

GARY

Gary couldn’t deal with his sexuality in the soap, he tries to take an overdose.

So we had our soap showing past the watershed

Drugs are quite shocking and wouldn’t be shown on a soap like Hollyoaks.

Q1.ComparisonCreating a character GARY

CHARLTONA cross dressing man in the soap

also mocked the alpha male status that you usually have in a soap. Going against the soap operas

conventions

Creating a charactersGary and downtown

are brothers Paris and Spenser

are engaged Roche and Spenser

are having an affair

Story Board

Charlton, Downton and Spenser are all friends.

Q1.

Parallel Narratives We used these characters storylines as the main features throughout the trailer.

ROCHE PARIS

SPENSER

Q1.

LOVE TRIANGLE

1.Creating tension through transitions

Transitions (black flashes) create a build up of tension throughout the trailer.

The soundtrack fitted well with the transitions it created more tension throughout the trailer.

Q1. Soundtrack

For the final trailer we used a song called ‘sweet disposition’ by The Temper Trap for

the soundtrack.

• The song genre is indie/rock which is aimed at our target audience - teens.

• The key of the song is in a D major which is the deepest (sad) of keys.

• It makes the audience know that the disequilibrium in the soap isn't going to be a happy upcoming episode.

• It starts slow building up tension and then starts to picks up paste. The drums kick in when it gets to the fast title cards at the end.

http://georgiahudsonsasmediablog.blogspot.com/

I used a website called blogger to upload my planning and documents that I had made during the process of making my soap opera ( audience research and my final trailer, billboard and magazine front cover)

Putting my work in order on my blog signifies in what order we did the work. It made it look professional and tidy.

This is how you upload a post the blog…

Q4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?