Magazine Cover

There is also a plan for our magazine cover which you will find here. My input in this was discussing with the group what would look good where and where abouts we would place these on the cover. Furthermore, what other story lines we would include on the front was also discussed. Here is our hand drawn cover which we were planning ideas around and I also contributed to this.

Poster Plan

I was responsible for creating the bases for our poster, which you will find here. We discussed as a group what we picture on our poster and where.

The first poster is generalised more towards the family moving in to the street and this is much broader in reaction and includes all aspects of a soap. We would be able to see the different characters in the background, but Helen would be forefront which relates to the male gaze theory.

In the other poster, it uses much more of the male gaze theory as we would sexualise Helen and she would be more appealing to males and we would want her in a dress and with devil horns. This would also relate to the 'Hell' aspect of our slogan.

Auditions

Here is our audition video.

My contribution to this task was creating a poster to advertise our auditions. We also were responsible for the filming and directing of our auditions and we also discussed who we think may be fitting for the role. I also helped with the editing of the video and also had an equal contribution to the voice-over analysis we used.

Costume, Location and Lighting

This is the costume section.
This is the Location Scouting section.
This is the lighting section.

My contribution to these sections was offering advice if needed.

Final Props

As we were only filming a trailer, we found that we didn't use any significant props. A trailer is often kept minimal, with the set and characters established. The most important prop we used was the car:

We wanted it green to connote the envy the female getting out of the car feels towards Helen. We decided to not use the props we were intending to use because of the complexity of getting the specific objects we required and also with problems with our casting, we didn't have enough members to play lots of different people.

When looking at trailers, the set is very minimalistic. For example, the trailer for the return of Eastender's Kat and Alfie is minimalist and doesn't include many props and relies heavily on the set.

All we can see of the set is the pub, which is the focus of Eastenders and features in a lot of trailers.

Props List

Props

Here is our props list as it currently stands. This has helped us to plan what we shall use and what style we are going to get them in and how they will be used in conjunction with our actors. I put this list together on my own with inputs from members of my group if I required it. Whilst we are preparing to commence filming, I will put together another list with the pictures of the actual props we are using and how they relate to the ones we first thought of.

Second Analysis of a Poster and Magazine Cover

Betty Poster


Soap Life

Animatic Storyboard

This our animatic storyboard. We did this to explain each individual shot and the rationale behind each one. This will help us to clearly see what we want within our soap opera trailer, what works and what doesn't and this will then aid us to adjust or change anything we may need to. My contribution to this task was taking and being in the pictures we took, helping putting the pictures in order, helping write the scripts and helping talk over our pictures.

Narrative Idea

This is a narrative idea:




We decided to use this format to make it entertaining and different to a simple filming. My contribution to this was equal to Jade and Jo in my group with finding pictures suitable for our setting, setting up our set, moving the characters around into the right positions and then editing to make it flow together to make stop motion.
The aspects that work well within this short film is the camera angles at the start with Helen. It pans up her body which is reflective of the male gaze theory. As we want to appeal to males, which aren't typically the gender who are continually watching soap operas, bringing Helen in as an object of desire will draw the male audience in. Concerning the female audience, we have typical soap story lines which generate thousands of views each year, such as teenage pregnancy, adultery and the long standing family of whom everyone is familiar. In our final trailer, Helen will be wearing red heels which connote lust and feminism and the sound being extra diegetic to make it more prominent against the other sounds within the piece.
The other characters are revealed slowly, so for example they will be doing every day activities such as walking the dog which is shown here. We aim to interest our audience into these characters if they haven't already seen the soap before and our trailer would expand into the episodes which we imagine to feature for a few weeks around the new family.
We have already decided to not use any speech within our trailer as we agree it will be more effective for the audience to be passive therefore taking in the new information, although there shall not be too much at once and this is the reason we decided against dialogue, as to not bring our audience out of this desired state. This is reflective of the hypodermic needle theory which describes the audience are just passive to the action.

Poster and Soap Magazine Cover Analysis

Soap Cover



Neighbours

Photgraphic Storyboard

Me, Jade and Jo went with a digital camera to take example shots of how we picture our shots to look like in our trailer. My contribution to this was taking some of the pictures and directing the postitions of the other two to make it look how we wanted it too.

This is our photographic storyboard.

Draft Script

This is our draft script which we will work from when we start to plan our trailer, and ultimately the filming. We agreed it would be more affective if we used less speech as we felt it would be more affective. The sole speech we will use will be at the end and will be the voice over of the channel and time showings.

This is our draft script:

Extra diegetic "clicking" of high heels
(tracking, extreme close up)
Extra diegetic of wheels on a suitcase
(wide shot)

Extra diegetic "whistle"

Extra diegetic of stamping of children's feet

Extra diegetic "slap" from Stephanie

Extra diegetic intake of breath

V.O
"Do the Halls create hell in Helen Howe? 8PM on Alan!"

Initial Ideas

These are our initial ideas to what we will include within our trailer. We all contributed ideas to these and developed each others ideas to achieve stronger and more powerful ideas we can include. Here is our diagram of ideas.