Q.1 continued
- 1. CAMERA SHOTS At the beginning of my trailer I faded in and out of mid-shots of the main characters to give a clue to the audience what the storylines are about and what kind of emotions are being portrayed. This shows how the mise en scene is used in the sequence, such as jack having his hood up and Katie crunched up, the relationship between each one of them and the emotions that run through
- 2. The way in which I made it fade was, between the cuts of each scene I would put a fader in and it would slowly fade into the scene I then also made it slow motion to make it last longer and become more dramatic Whilst zooming towards him, I then put another fader into it, which made it flow straight into the next scene (still in slow motion).
- 3. My trailer Two shots Coronation street POV over shoulder shot
- 4. Audience can be involved in what's going on and there isn't a fourth wall. They can also see how the characters react and the emotions they display and be involved within the conversation.
- 5. Working with sets The settings were very important, especially when trying to create a perfect scene for the characters and to set the mood. These two settings are important as it shows jack, who is a highly skilled business man, evil business man, were he is in an office and obviously earns a lot of money. On the other hand we show Aneesa in the phone booth, not only does this show the other side to the conversation, but how Aneesa has nothing and can only afford to pay for that and shows she must be in a lot of trouble
- 6. Inside and outside settings Working outside was easier because we had Working inside was a lot more difficult natural light and didn’t need any more to as we didn’t have that much light, but work with. we stayed next to a large window which cast in natural light, and just turned on a light in the room to shine in. For the inside we mainly used close We could use any type of shot for outside but up shot and shot reverse shot, this we mainly used shot reverse shot, long shot, is because its a lot more intense and and two shot. shows that the audience are in someone's home involved in there conversations.
- 7. For the trailer I had to make it easy to follow and make the storylines clear for the audience, so I made sure all the characters were involved and the major scenes. These scenes had all the characters in it, portrayed the storyline and most of all kept the audience interested and made them want to watch it.
- 8. Soap Opera institution Whilst working on my soap opera I had to make an advert on the channel and include one to the shots of when it starts on ITV so I used this one as a guide. The reason I put my soap on ITV is because the gritty soaps are shown on there such as Coronation street, so I decided to put mine on there to and it would be a popular program. As you can see I kept to the main design of the actual one to ensure it looked as realistic as it could. This helped as throughout my soap I had placed title cards and the last one indicated the ITV1 branding.
- 9. NAMING MY SOAP The reason I named my soap Flashing Lights is for mainly two reasons one: the song I chose to play was Flashing lights- Chase & Status, and I made sure that at the end of my trailer it repeated the words ‘flashing lights flashing lights…’ etc. this made it so much more effective and The second reason is because of the memorable. main storyline about the Drug dealer needing his money and going against the law. The ‘flashing lights’ come into play, as they symbolise police sirens and lights and danger, as my soap has quite a sad and dangerous main storyline and I think it fits in really well.
- 10. As well as this, I will come back to my point at the beginning about the time it will be on and the tv guide. I had to look at the demographic side and looked at the possible times it could be on. I chose to put it on at the time coronation street is normally on, as the demographic would be at home from school/work. This is so they could watch it whilst eating tea/ having supper