Practice soap evaluation
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1) The document describes a group dividing up roles and storylines to practice filming a practice soap opera trailer using dialogue from real soaps. 2) They used conventional filming techniques like angles and shots seen in real soaps to make their practice trailer realistic. 3) The editor used thought beats and background music/heartbeats to create intensity in the trailer, taking inspiration from real soap opera trailers. They plan to consider these techniques for their final product.
Practice soap evaluation
- 1. Making and evaluating my practice soap trailer
- 2. Because this was my practice product we had to work out how we worked best in our group. We all started by finding spoken dialogue from other soaps and selecting some to use in our own. This means we were using a source to make our own practice soap realistic. We ended up taking speech out of both Hollyoaks and Emmerdale.
- 3. We divided our team for each storyline into different roles: By splitting the groups into different roles it meant we got to practice each different job as well as keeping ourselves organised and on our own personal task. Story line one Story line two Story line three Director: Becky Director: Tiff Director: Max Camera men: Camera men: Me Camera men: Emma G and and Emma H Becky and Joe Emma H Actors: Becky Actors: Me and Actors: and Joe Emma G Max, Tiff, Joe and Me Crew: Emma G Crew: Emma H and Max
- 4. When filming we used a lot of angles used in the actual soap. This meant that we had a practice at what conventional framing and shot angles are used in your typical soap. This would helps us to recreated a realistic product for our final trailer.
- 5. Mine and Tiffs editing of the trailer: Me and Tiff noticed that a common feature in trailers is the use of thought beats. We decided to imitate this feature in our practice trailer. The music we used in the background is the opening cut from a song called “You!Me!Dancing!” which was popular with our audience (late teens). To create more of a intensity to our thought beats we also put a heartbeat sound with the music to create a better effect. We think thought beats work in trailers because it gives the audience little snippets of feelings from each character. We will be considering using this in our final product.
- 6. TITLE CARDS Title cards are an essential part of soap trailers because they help create a narrative. I think the title cards in my soap could be improved and I hope to use different ones which create more branding in my final product.
- 7. I think my practice trailers cuts could of ran a lot smoother and that some of the dialogue could of been louder – this is something I will try and improve on for my final product. Sound is a very important thing to get clear when filming. I think our lighting worked well throughout the trailer and this isn’t something we struggled with. The main music used in the trailer was “heart skips a bit” by Olly Mures and I felt this worked well because it matched the narratives.