Evalution: Question 1
- 1. The Grove Matthew Tildesley Candidate Number: 4891 Aquinas College: 33435
- 2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- 3. Camera as On a set, not on a the fourth location. wall. Casual clothes (costume) creates realism. Big close up to show emotions. ¾ storylines in Soap forms trailers and storylines : Keeps POV over shoulder shots : and the viewers involves the conventions interested and allows the multiple audience, makes them feel like they to be spread across are there, multiple episodes. experiencing the Multiple main characters : characters Allows for multiple parallel emotions. narratives and convergence. Keeps the audience interested.
- 4. Various different storylines are used to make the trailer more interesting. There are 7 total
- 5. • I started my trailer with a scene to immediately grab the audiences attention, the shocking scene of the car crash. • As the trailer continues, we continue to get shocking images of death and conflict between the characters. • I used fast paced editing all the way through my trailer apart from the end which I slowed right down in order to make the audience reflect on the events.
- 6. We used natural lighting to give our soap a natural look. The natural lighting also helped make the soap look realistic. We did however use the night effect when editing this was to make the scene look as though it is dark and creates a negative atmosphere.
- 7. Use of not having the characters face in shot creates the mystery of a ‘who done it scenario?’ Low angle shot of the phone adds emphasis to the importance of it. Low Angle shots create the effect of the audience watching the person. Mostly used to show weakness or peering over someone's shoulder.
- 8. Arm over the shoulder shows comforting nature of the character. The clothing and hair show the characters stereotype and gives them identity Use of costumes and props emphasise characters stereotypical appearance and style. Two Shot establishes connections between two characters usual used to show characters that are in relationships. This shot shows how the characters are connected but that there is something going on between them with the expression of the actors
- 9. We also decided to use phones as a way to express and relate to the intended audience as the audience will usually have access to this technology. Phones were a great way to show how the soap reflects everyday life as it is available to everyone. The use of having a close up of the phone adds tension as sometimes cause we can not see who is holding the phone or whose it is.
- 10. We used this shot from a Eastenders episode as it was effective to show the character in the car as if we were stood right next to them empathising the crash