The making of freshers

The making of Freshers

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I took a print screen from the e4 style guide and then on key note I added the text that i wanted

Evaluation Question 1 Part 2

Evaluation q1 part 2

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Final Billboard

Audience Moodboard

Planning: Anciliaries

Planning: Ancilliaries

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Practice Ancilliary

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To get myself familliar with photoshop and how it works I decided to make a practice ancilliary using the magazine I'm going to use as a template for where the masthead and sub titles needed to be placed. I feel that this helped me to fully understand the conventions of a magazine.
I used a "classy" magazine to try and mimic and I think that I did quite a good job of it.
I cut out the image in photoshop first and then I added in the masthead and the main sub title. I used a brush stroke in photoshop to get that paintbrush look on the bottom and the left hand corner of the magazine. I then transferred the image over to publisher where I added more text because I find it easier to do it that way.

Ancillary Research

To see what sort of elements I wanted to put into my magazine cover I had to look at some exaples.
I decided in the end that I was going to choose a "classy" magazine to do as this fitted more with the genre of my soap opera.

Ancillary research

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Evaluating the Hollyoaks Trailer

LINKED TO EVALUATION Q1

• The Hollyoaks trailer begins with a title card to let the audience know what is going to be shown next on the screen and also to give existing viewers something to recognise and get excited about.
• We as the audience are shown quick edits of each of the characters to give viewers some excitement as to what is going to happen in the next episode. With various shot types to allow the audience to recognise relationships between the characters.
• We get parallel narratives of short stories between each character to show that they are all linked together.
• Hash tags showing that Hollyoaks is connected with social networking sites such as twitter, this attracts a younger audience to the programme as they will be using these websites
• Alot of Mise En Scene is used in this trailer as we see on the Charity boxes that show woman naked for a charity event, the location of the kitchen show people are at home and the audience can relate to this. Smoothies on a table outside with plastic cups and straws shows friends meeting up outside (socialising)
• The non-diegetic soundtrack fits in with the emotions and storylines shown in the trailer therefore helping to portray what’s going on.

Final project rough cut

PLANNING: Scripts

Before we could go out and film our Soap Opera we had to write down more ideas of what we wanted to be said in the script.
Here is more photographic evidence

Runnaway Story:

Gay Story:

Drug Story:

Planning For Freshers

Before we could go out and start filming our Soap Opera we had to brainstorm ideas.
We decided to get into a big group and write down all our ideas that we came up with onto pieces of paper.
The slideshow below is photographic evidence that this is what we did.

Planning For Freshers

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EVIDENCE: Final Photos For Hollyoaks Storyboard

Here are the photos that we got from using the print screens from the hollyoaks episode

Final Hollyoaks Storyboard Photos

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EVIDENCE: Filming & Storyboard Making

Before we started filming our Soap Opera we had to make a sotryboard of what was going to happen in our trailer. Here is a slideshow showing what we did to prepare for this.

Filming & Storyboard Making

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American Soap Opera Basics

• American Soap operas serve different purposes to British soap operas.
• British soap operas are generally gritty and working class, they’re very real.

• Hollyoaks is a bit more glamorous. Then there is scripted reality which is different to soap operas such as the only way is Essex and made in Chelsea.

• American Soaps are a lot more glamorous and they’re used as a form of escapism, this makes people feel good although they have unattainable lifestyles.
• It allows people to escape into American dream world for an hour.
• American Soaps always have beautiful actors and actresses who always have “perfect” appearances.

• They are very melodramatic and contain emotional stories. It is a very feminine genre. The scheduling is “daytime drama” as it is women at home who watch it.

• Televised love stories.
• They run in seasons. There’ll be a climax then they’ll have a break and come back to the series
• Things that happen in the previous episodes aren’t mentioned in the next episode
• American soap operas have non diegetic sound which tells you how to feel and makes it feel more dramatic.
• English soap operas have something in the scene where the music is coming from

English Soap Opera Basics

• UK soaps tend to contain more realism than US and spanish soaps. (Eastenders use a blue filter on the light to make the storyline feel more gritty and realistic)
• Traditional soap operas run continuously- character story lines overlap
• Can have 10-15 main characters a range of ages, genders, sexualities, races, to appeal to as large an audience as possible
• Soap operas become part of the national psyche- they weave their way into our culture
• Characters become “people”, they are spoken of as if they’re family as they become so improtant in people’s lives
• Audience- soaps tend to be aimed at female audiences. This affects scheduling, storylines, characters and narrative perspective
• Story- events that are unfolding
• Narrative Perspective- Point of view the story is told from
Catharsis- Emotional cleansing. Watching someone else go through the same situation as you makes you feel better

Dallas 2012 trailer Analysis

Linked to evaluation Q1

Dallas ran from 1978 – 1991 originally started as a drama. In America there are either Soap Operas or Daytime dramas. At the end of the 1st series the main character was shot and that sparked it off as the story line gripped people’s attention all across the nation. This was rare in 1978 as it related to everyone

• At the start of the trailer we are given an establishing shot of Dallas. The Arial shot we are given is as if we are in one of the character’s helicopters. All the glass sky scrapers we are shown in the blazing sun tell us that we are going to be joining the lives of the wealthy people who own them.

• Dallas is heavily rich in oil and this also tells us that these people are going to be extremely wealthy
Texas in itself is famous for oil; oil brings money power and ultimately greed and corruption. America made its money off oil; it wouldn’t have made itself what it is without it. America can exploit Texas by the amount of oil. You get families making their name and their status off oil. You end up with a few families striking the oil and making money off it. At the start of Dallas you get a family that are slightly rich but then change throughout the season and by the 13th they have changed.

• The characters are introduced unlike the English soaps; it’s so different. Although the soap is named Dallas we are also knitted in to the lives of the families that live there by the actors being introduced. The intro takes you through a journey. We see families dramatically change throughout.

• The music has a drum beat that’s like a horse galloping which takes us back to the old times in Texas when they would have used horses. This non-diegetic soundtrack plays a newer more modern version of the soundtrack that was used in the original Soap. Dallas is aimed at women who stay at home all day and have a lot of free time on their hands. This is instantly recognisable to the audience wherever they hear it and this makes them want to know more.

• The weather is dry and sunny and this makes the audience aspire to be like the characters of Dallas and dream of living there and having that lifestyle because Dallas wouldn’t be as good as it is without the fantastic weather

• The screen then fades to black and we are given a 2 shot which then changes to a point of view of the back of an old man’s head; this is JR. JR is shown as an old man to show the audience that the soap’s characters have aged a couple of years, we are shown this by him sitting in his chair with a blanket over his knee and his fancy housecoat. We are also shown a Point of view shot of his watch to also imply to us that he is wealthy.

• The character bobby says “for what?” in the diegetic sound of the trailer and after that the shot changes to a title card saying “Money” in large gold lettering. This makes the audience subconsciously think of money and power and this relates back to oil.

• The stern facial expressions which the character’s are giving each other in the trailer signals to the audience that there is a feud in the family to do with the subject of money. Also the argument between J.R and his son Bobby fits in with the fast paced music and introduces to us the new characters and how the same problems are being passed down through the generations.

• There are quick shots shown in the trailer to create excitement between the viewer and the screen. This therefore makes the audience more excited to watch the series and gets them on the edge of their seats.

• The new characters are now young and hot, this is an attempt to try and coax in the children of the mothers who watched the programme from the start. The word Dallas becomes bolder and has become a brand. The theme tune is bolder and has also become a brand this also makes the younger viewers more likely to watch the programme.

• The title cards used in the same bold gold lettering, “power” and “rivalry” make the argument between the family clear and this tells us that they have “rivalry” with each other because of “power” and this leads to “money”

• We hear Bobby say “I don’t want them to be like us” which shows that even though there is a rivalry between the two brothers they still love each other just the same. The hate used between family members in American soaps is different to English due to the fact the characters love and hate each other.

• The montage edit used helps introduce more characters to the table and makes the younger viewers yet even more intrigued as to what the programme beholds

• The fast paced establishing shot combined with a zoom towards the mansion which shows us again that these people in this programme are extremely wealthy. Bobby’s son’s voice used in the non-diegetic sound shows to the audience that this is his house. He says, “my whole life I’ve been trying to put your name back on top” this quotation tells us that he’s fighting to make his father proud of him and although he has this huge house he’s still not happy.

• The couple kissing and the wedding implies that there will be romance in the show and this will attract female attention and get them into watching the programme because females enjoy watching this sort of thing and will have something they feel that they can relate to.

• “No drilling on my ranch” is yet another hint to the audience of the conflict between the characters in the show. This shows that maybe the community is corrupt and the characters have been stealing oil from each other to try and gain the most “money” and “power”.

• The establishing shots of Dallas and its buildings show to us again what a well of city this is and that the people who live in it must also be extremely well off.

• The dialogue, “I am sick to death of this family devouring itself over money” clears up to the audience why the family do not get along and it makes them more intrigued as to what the family are fighting over.

• American soaps are escapists; they are surrounded and based on wealth and beauty. Though they are still about family, neighbours and because they’re so close this feuds conflict. The conflicts are still about brothers fighting and people having affairs even though everything’s so heightened and unrealistic.

Soap Opera Practice

This is my soap oper practice trailer. We based this on an episode of Hollyoaks and we aquired the script from watching an episode of Hollyoaks and picking out a section from the episode.
By making this I:

Familliarised myself with iMovie an learnt how to crop clips of film from others to create something I liked.
I learnt how to do transitions from one clip to another and make it look smooth.
I also learnt how to add non-diegetic sound to the footage and edit it in.
I learnt how to create a range of different shot types to convey to the audience which storyline was which in the trailer and I learnt how to show my knowledge of varied soaps and apply them into my trailer

If I were to improve my trailer I would:

Make sure that my shots were quicker to give the trailer a feel of a faster pace; therefore the audience would be more interested.
I would make sure that I made the storyline between Josh cheating on the two girls more clear as this isn't very noticeable in the trailer, I'd also make sure that when I was filming outside that it wasn't windy because this interfeared with the sound on the footage.
I'd make sure that the camera was more astutely placed on eye level so the audience would feel more involved with the story.
I would also elaborate on which shot types I used and vary them because I used quite alot of the same ones.
More close ups of the characters would be needed to create a feel of familliarity and clarity for the audience

Creating My Storyboard

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Hollyoaks script

Hollyoaks Ancilliary Practice

To prepare me for my Ancilliary's later on in the project I decided to do this to let me know what exactly I need to do and what skills I need to develop.

Analysing Eastenders

Analyising Eastenders

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Doctor Who Stop Motion Animation Part 3

Doctor who stop motion animation 3

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Stop Motion Animation Evaluation

Stop Motion Animation Evaluation

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Doctor Who Stop Motion Animation Part 4

Doctor who stop motion animation 4

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Doctor Who Stop Motion Animation Part 2

Doctor who stop motion animation 2

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Doctor Who Stop Motion Animation Part 1

Doctor who stop motion animation 1

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