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Sunday, 23 October 2011
Saturday, 22 October 2011
Friday, 21 October 2011
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Practice Ancilliary
LINKED TO EVALUATION Q2
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.
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.
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
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.
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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Tuesday, 18 October 2011
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.
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:
Here is more photographic evidence
Runnaway Story:
Gay Story:
Drug Story:
Sunday, 16 October 2011
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.
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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Saturday, 15 October 2011
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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Wednesday, 12 October 2011
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
• 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
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
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
• 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
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