EVALQ1:part1
- 1. How does your product use, develop and challenge the conventions of real media texts?
- 2. Can have a range of 10-15 main characters UK soaps are more who have a big range realistic than USA or of gender, sexuality, Spanish soaps. class and races to appeal to the audience as much as possible. In Coronation Street, a grotty pub is one of the main locations used Tend to be aimed at to create a realistic but exaggerated lower class feel to female audience. the characters. Soaps weave into our Catharsis- the viewer culture. can relate to the drama in the tv drama.
- 3. A narrative perspective shows who’s point of Traditional soap operas view the story is shown run continuously where from. as American soaps are often shown in series. One main story over the whole soap and many different sub stories which get sorted out in episodes. American characters British characters American and Spanish soaps are more unrealistic as the characters are always made to look good. Whereas British soap characters wear minimal make up to create more realism.
- 5. The first shot of the Hollyoaks trailer uses an establishing shot to show the characters in an expected place they I challenged this would meet up. The convention by using a mise-en-scene of the mid shot of Soph and JP chairs and plastic cups on a sofa in a living shows they are at a room. Because of the place like ‘Starbucks’ or mise-en-scene of the ‘Costa Coffee’ so shows sofa and the plain white they are friends on a wall, the audience can casual catch up. establish where the characters are (in a living room environment) but it keeps the main focus on the emotion on Sophie’s face without starting off with a close up camera shot.
- 6. In this shot on the character trailer the character walks into Here, Mon walks into the camera mid shot the camera two shot. rather than the camera She is also framed by follow him which I found either side of the alley to be a good technique way and more that we then went on attention is drawn on and used in our trailer. her than Grimmers. Because of the establishing long shot, The red on the brick the audience know wall contrasts with the because of the dark green making it stand lighting, Mon may be out. We did this so walking into a when the audience saw dangerous situation. the colour, they’d subconsciously think about danger. Empty alleyway gives a sense of depth to the scene. However, we mimicked the Hollyoaks shot Grimmer’s using a long shot when costume is all Shad walks into her black which kitchen which is connotes he has a established by the dark side to him dining table and the and because of the chairs to create an situation shown by impact of her the shot, it shows entrance. he is meeting Mon.
- 7. Here is an over the shoulder mid close up shot of the character to show his emotions in the Hollyoaks trailer. It includes the other characters head and a plain background to make sure all attention is on the character’s facial expression. We also used an over the shoulder shot but only showed part of The plain brick Grimmer’s face to background wall keeps establish the position of all the audiences’ focus the characters. on Mon’s emotions displayed by her face in We made Mon’s this midshot. character stand far back but still in a mid shot position but from a high angle to show Mon’s vulnerability.
- 8. In SKINS this scene really appealed to me where ‘Cook’ is speaking to ‘Effy’. It’s location is in a dark alleyway which we imitated when we used dangerous situation. This show a two shot mid shot of both the characters and the dark clothing and lighting shows they are doing something wrong which in the actual scene is shown by the drugs the character ‘Cook’ is smoking. In our trailer we used the same position of the characters in a mid Grimmer’s costume is made up of all long shot. The two characters are black to connote evil as he threatens framed by the mise-en-scene of the Mon. Mon’s costume is black but a brick wall and the lampost/fences white top reflects her innocence and creating the feel that Mon can’t get her vulnerability to the audience away. making them feel sympathy towards her. The location of the shot is in an alleyway in Cheadle that’s very quiet. As Grimmers is there before Mon, it shows he’s not a good person choosing an alleyway to meet someone and the audience know they wouldn’t meet someone there. It shows that Grimmers is of a bad background.
- 9. We used a parallel We used a long shot narrative to show what establishing shot to was happening with both show where Hal was the characters at the when Shad was going to same time by starting contact her. The off with Shad ringing Hal audience would shown my a close up of automatically know her phone. We used this from the shot after in as all the audience the parallel narrative would know Shad is that it’s Hal that Shad is trying to contact contacting because of someone. the note she left. We then used an extreme We used a close up shot of close up to show a point of Shad to show the emotion view shot of Hal looking at on her face. We kept her her phone. Because it’s a eye level to the middle continuous edit of two third of the screen so the character’s narratives, the audience can connect with audience would already know her emotions as they know this was Hal’s phone because she is unsettled. of the mise en scene of the train tracks that were shown in the long shot establishing I made the sound of the shot. This also creates a non-diegetic music match realism as train stations are the edits to make it seem easily accessable for like there were thought everyone so it relates to our beats. I also removed the target audiences’ travelling. diegetic sound to make the scene seem more dramatic to the guitar solo.
- 10. Darker shadow on Grimmers’ face in this close up shot shows he’s a bad character and connotes he has something to hide from the viewers. All soaps have to have a bad person to create drama so I think Grimmers’ character would live up to audience expectations and by watching the trailer the audience will be attracted to this. The light directly hits Mon’s face connoting her innocence and shows how afraid she is by her facial expression in this mid close up shot. The audience will subconsciously pick up on this and know that Grimmers is the ‘bad guy’
- 11. This is a song I had came across a while ago and I thought it would fit my trailer straight away when filming. It talks about having someone who means something to you and my show plays on best friends and relationships creating meaning to the story. It’s a slow and fast paced song so connotes the rollercoaster of emotions that are in my tv drama. The link to the official video of this song on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-rsQ2e_Gls&ob=av2e
- 12. Skins trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =mH0O5AuYC30 This trailer also uses short snappy edits to the beat of the song as it starts off fast then slows down to start playing on the story lines. It establishes the characters lifestyle first which then turns into drama as the music changes to match the mood of the characters.
- 13. I chose short snappy clips as it’s one of the typical conventions of a soap trailer and made them match the beats of the music. I started off by using 0-1 secs establishing mid shots and long shots of characters to introduce them and show their full costumes and the location they were in to show their class (such as kitchen shows someone’s housing environment and dark, grotty alleyways show a bad background). I also used fade to black edits between different story lines to make it 1-3 secs clear to the audience when a different story line is playing. As my trailer shows the basic dramas, 3-4 secs when the non diegetic sound is changed to a faster pace I took advantage of that and used edits to match the symbol crashes on the drums and end of bars of guitar solos to show the storylines without diegetic sound creating enigma for the audience to want to 5 secs know why Hal doesn’t answer Shad’s phonecall and why Soph and JP fall out.