Soap Opera practice Emma Goldie and Emma Hardy

As a group of 6 we each made a script from an existing soap that had previously been on TV in the week. We cut down the scripts and used the three best and most common story lines and created them as a group in college. We did this to get a better idea of:

• How to use the camera's
• Creating mise en scene
• Acting out scripts
• Setting locations

Once we had filmed each scene we were then introduced into using iMovie on a mac, this also gave us a better idea of how to use iMovie so we can edit at a high standard on our soap trailer. 

Making And Evaluating My Practice Soap Trailer

Ancillary Practice For Eastenders

To understand the conventions of a billboard, i researched into existing billboards, looked at the conventions and what i had to include on the poster to make it look like it was for a soap. I therefore made this mock up billboard for the soap Eastenders.

Eastenders Evaluation

To get a better idea of the conventions in a soap opera i made sure i watched a scene from an existing soap opera that was recently aired on TV. I took print screens while i was watching it and took it into PowerPoint to make annotations and deconstruct the scene i had been watching.

Eastenders Trailer

In this trailer of eastenders we are first introduced to a woman who looks like she tries to make an effort with her appeaerence, she wears a lot of make up and bright clothing which means she's trying that hard it's making her look cheap and tacky. The cheapness is emphasised by the bright lighting on the character we are first introduced too. The scene is then cut to a flashback, we know this as the lighting is dull and is in a sepia tone which makes the audience know this isn't in the present time.

Dallas 2012 Trailer

• Non- diegetic soundtrack creates tension. the music also matches the edits. Soundtrack is also dated to match audience, to recapture audiences that watched dallas when it was first aired.
• Storyline is split into snippets to give audience a preview of what is shown, the clips are introduced by a transition to create more tension.
• Dark lighting creates a sense of a secretive storyline and draws the audience in to make them watch it when Dallas is on air.
• The montage of the trailer shows to the audience the tension between each of these characters and leaves the audience on a cliffhanger at the end
• Dull lighting is shown throughout to show the secretive antics from characters which shows the contrast of the title card "money" this shows that even though they are rich from the oil company it's not always happy.

Dr Who Stop Motion Part 3

Dr Who Stop Motion Part 2

Dr Who Stop Motion Part 1

In College we were put into a group of 3 to produce a stop motion of the TV program Dr Who, we had to print off our own images and put them into a cardboard set and act out the scene chosen by the group.

Summer Stop Motion Project

Over the summer i created my own stop motion. I researched into existing stop motion's on YouTube so i could make my own original story line to my stop motion. I ended up creating a story line which shows the growth of a flower from being planted to being in full bloom.