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.