Friday 16 December 2011
Thursday 15 December 2011
Tuesday 13 December 2011
Ancillary Billboard 2
The black background featured on this poster is to add the sinister effect, and add a darker meaning contrasting with the parody. This is also seen in the Hollyoaks fire billboard above, as the darkness creates a darker narrative.
In Photoshop, Matt B used the magic wand tool, magentic lasso tool and an eraser tool to remove the background from the orginal images.
The gradient tool was then used, dark grey and black colours were chosen for the background. The text tool was put to use to create "WHO'S THE DADDY?" again creating intertextuality with the soap magazine front cover. The logo was then inserted. The continuity error with the jumper was avoided as it has been cropped from the image.
Monday 12 December 2011
Ancillary Billboard 1
This Billboard is our first idea. I shows each characters different emotions and something about their character. The colours behind each character are different; inspiration taken from the billboards towards the bottom of this post.
We realised that we had to use a different shot of myself (Chandelier) within the first billboard as there was a continuity error. I am seen holding the jumper that was supposed to be used as my baby bump. Within other changes and discussions within the group, Matthew Beckwith added an outer glow on the text at the top of the billboard, enabling it to stand out and depicted a narrative. It also uses intertextuality as Angel (played by Kerrianne) says within the trailer, "anything can happen in Ivywood"
These images were swapped to ensure the baby bump was shown.
This is the second copy by Matt Beckwith:
Here you can see that the photos were manipulated in adobe photoshop. This design makes the audience aware and familiar with the cast of 'Ivywood' and follows the conventions of the E4 branding. Matt Beckwith is the most talented on photoshop, and so he removed the green screen and cropped the images to allow us to place them on backgrounds of different colours. The tape and typography was inserted afterwards.
We followed the styles that look a little bit like these, as it is aimed at a similar demographic audience, and all these have been/ are broadcased on E4.
The E4 style guide, gave us advice and the conventions on what our branding had to obey:
Ancillary- Soap Magazine, final front cover.
Planned by: Matthew Beckwith, Laura McCann and Kate Trollope.
Created by: Kate Trollope
Location Shots
Location shots
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We had to establish where we were going to film our trailer, and so we thought it appropriate to film in a area where the MES would be easy to manipulate and access was allowed at any time.
We had to establish where we were going to film our trailer, and so we thought it appropriate to film in a area where the MES would be easy to manipulate and access was allowed at any time.
Friday 2 December 2011
Photographs: Ancillary 1 & 2
We used this image as our chosen front cover for our TV magazine because all the facial expressions and emotions are clear and the lighting highlights all of this.
Each character had an individual photo taken for our first idea billboard. This consisted of all the characters making an appearance with different facial expressions, and some MES to show the characters personality. e.g. Matt B (a.k.a. Mickey) poses with a fluffy scarf to show his feminine side, which also appears within our trailer.
Matt E (a.k.a. Rhino) poses with a Rhino tattoo on his arm.
Ancillary Planning- Billboard posters
Here are some scanned pictures of our planning for our billboard posters, Ancillary Task 2. Matt Beckwith and I have drawn up two different ideas as we weren't sure which one would be more affective When planning this as a group, we all decided to create two as that then gave us a chance to COMPARE. We looked at concentrating on a billboard that built on what we were concerned as our MAIN STORYLINE and another that looked at each individual character. We have used the e4 designer website to ensure that we follow conventions. We have also taken inspiration from the Ugly Betty billboard poster.
Matt Beckwith came up with a slightly detailed drawing of our second idea. We settled on the decision of having a MCU (medium close up) of each character, thus allowing the audience to become interested in the soap before they have even seen it, as the emotions on the faced would become clear through FACIAL EXPRESSION and BODY LANGUAGE.
This is another plan for our first billboard idea, including our main storyline. This billboard includes two CU of Rhino and Mickey from the side. This shot would show the anger and hatred between the two characters as their eyes would match the same eye line. Chandelier would be seen standing in between the boys but in a MCU to highlight the love triangle storyline. Also, we would include the TWITTER REFERENCE which shows that the soap is aimed at a YOUNGER AUDIENCE, just like other programmes that are broadcasted on E4.
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Ancillary Research and Planning
We brainstormed different names of TV magazines that could give us some inspiration. 'TV Buzz' was our favourite and so we included this in our planned drawing as shown. We are aiming to follow the conventions of the 'TV easy' magazine cover shown below, as we feel it fits in with our soap genre of parody (including bright colours etc..) Within the centre of our magazine cover, we plan to feature the three main characters in our soap 'Ivy Wood': Rhino, Chandelier and Micky as they are in a love triangle. For extra stories, we hope to persue the idea of taking photos of other people within the class to feature as another soap issued within the same magazine.
Flat plan for TV magazine:
Friday 25 November 2011
Ivy Wood, A2 Coursework Final Trailer, Kate Trollope 4901
Here is my final soap trailer for Ivy Wood.
I have encorporated many different media techniques through the use of iMovie. 'Ducking' is used to ensure dialogue is heard over the backing track throughout. Slow Motion, added echo and camera filters have been added at the end of the trailer to engage the audience, and create a more intense atmosphere.
The soundtrack, 'In Another Life' by Katie Perry highlights the main theme of the storyline: love and acceptance. Shot revearse shot is used throughout filming to maintain with the rules of soap operas.
An extra scene has been added towards the start of the trailer to allow the audience to establish the relationships between the characters, as previous audience feedback suggested that these relationships were unclear. Many close ups are used to show intense emotion from the characters, therefore following the conventions of soaps and our target genre of parody.
Audience Feedback
During a lesson, the class watched each others trailers and gave everyone certain feedback on what they could improve and what worked well. The table below shows all the feedback I recieved, in which I was very happy with:
| Comment on: | Feedback: |
| Is there a variety of shot types? | Yes. Followed conventions really well. Some shots were not held steady or for long enough. |
| Are the shot types conventional of the genre? BCU, 2 shot, SRS, low angle etc for soap. | Lots of CU and SRS, typical of soap conventions. HA shot worked really well, made him seem helpless. |
| Editing: is it clear what is happening? Does the editing tell you how to feel, e.g. fast paced editing for excitement, tension, slow-mo for suspense. Do title cards match the brand identity of the institution broadcasting the soap? Is branding for the soap distinctive? | Storyline is clear. Audience is quickly aware it is a parody. Music tells the story. Title cards match e4 brand identity. Branding is distinctive, can see resemblance to inspiration of ‘Hollyoaks’. Relationships are established quickly. |
| Sound: can you hear all the dialogue clearly? Are sounds levels equal throughout? Does non-diegetic soundtrack match the action and add to the narrative? Does non-diegetic soundtrack meet conventions in terms of what will attract the audience? (Audience research) | Most dialogue is heard clearly. Some is overpowered by the music- more ducking needed in places. Soundtrack matches storyline- slow so tells audience how to feel. Contrasts with parody genre. Soundtrack- Katy Perry. Young artist that the audience are familiar with. |
| Narratives and storylines: are they believable? Are they conventional? Do they use, develop, challenge? | Storylines are over-acted but typical of a parody genre. Storylines and shot types are conventional. They use, develop and challenge although a slap is needed during fight scene. |
Thursday 24 November 2011
Ivywood trailer- rough cut.
After cutting and editing original footage on iMovie, I have come up with this trailer. However, audience feedback suggested that the relationships were not clear between the characters, and so we realised that an extra scene would be needed to make the relationships clear to the audience. This is a rough cut as improvements still needed to be made.
Thursday 17 November 2011
Preparation- storyboards and shot lists.
Before shooting our scenes, we were told to create storyboards and lists of different shot types for each scene, showing our preperation. When we came to shoot our scenes, there were few changes to the preparation planning.
I then drew up a shooting schedule to ensure that we got all the shot types, that were needed for each scene, done correctly and in order on the day.
I then drew up a shooting schedule to ensure that we got all the shot types, that were needed for each scene, done correctly and in order on the day.
Tuesday 1 November 2011
Ancillary Task!
Kate Trollope, Kerrianne Tatton, Katie Henderson, Matthew Ewing, Matthew Beckwith.
Characters:
· Matt B: Mickey
· Matt E: Rhino
· Katie H: Kim
· Kerrianne: Angel
· Kate: Chandelier
· Laura: Rosé
Storylines:
- Mickey is a cross dresser and likes to dress up in Rosé’s clothes when she isn’t at home. She is unaware that Mickey likes to dress up as a woman and is soon to be married to him. Rosé finally walks in on Mickey wearing her favourite dress.
- Rhino is known as a player. Chandelier is known as a stereotypical ‘dumb blonde’ but also a bit of a slag. Rhino has a one night stand with Chandelier at a party and she ends up pregnant. Rhino doesn’t take the news well and finds out via the text, ‘I’m preggers. LOL!’
- Kim is the local drug dealer and is trying to persuade Angel that taking drugs is good. Angel thinks she is a born again Christian and tells Kim to turn to the Bible for answers.
Costumes:
- Matt B, A.K.A. Mickey: Sequin dress/skirt, tights, heels, boob tube, caked in make-up.
- Matt E, A.K.A. Rhino: Fake tan, bling, fur coat, low cut top.
- Katie, A.K.A Kim: Burberry trackies, trainers, plait hair, runny eye liner, bruises on arms.
- Laura, A.K.A. Rosé: Massive engagement ring, takes care in her appearance.
- Kate A.K.A. Chandelier: Pony tail on top of head, bright blusher, and big hoop earrings. Fake baby bump, fake tan, fake eyelashes, caked in make-up.
• Every scene in a soap starts with an Establishing shot, pan and MLS- this is done to establish the location, time of day and position of characters in relation to each other. Eye line match and audience understand who is exchanging dialogue.
• Followed by a series of MS, MCU, BCU, Slow Zoom- done to establish the emotions and to make the audience feel involved. (Soap is an emotional genre). It is also done to create the pressure effect and becomes more intense as the conflict builds.
• At the end of the scene, we will have one line of dialogue and a reaction shot (MCU, BCU) Generally up to 3 seconds long. This shot lingers on the actors face so that the audience can catch the characters emotion. (To gauge reaction). This also gives the audience time to consume and digest what has just happened before next conflict.
• Followed by a series of MS, MCU, BCU, Slow Zoom- done to establish the emotions and to make the audience feel involved. (Soap is an emotional genre). It is also done to create the pressure effect and becomes more intense as the conflict builds.
• At the end of the scene, we will have one line of dialogue and a reaction shot (MCU, BCU) Generally up to 3 seconds long. This shot lingers on the actors face so that the audience can catch the characters emotion. (To gauge reaction). This also gives the audience time to consume and digest what has just happened before next conflict.
Friday 14 October 2011
Hollyoaks- The Wedding Trailer
This is a soap trailer that uses different conventions to my preliminary task.
Thursday 13 October 2011
DALLAS NOTES
Opening: Jolly music behind, non-diegetic (soundtrack rather than a theme tune); creates a happy, lively atmosphere. Use of Major keys: no heavy instruments like drums. Split screen of characters all smiling, women have perfect hair and make-up. They wear jewellery and have perfect haircuts showing they have the time to make an effort.
Long establishing shot shows huge amount of space. Huge buildings made of polished glass highlights the amount of money within this city. Camera makes them look like we are flying over Texas in a helicopter, makes audience wonder whether characters own the helicopter. Season 13 of Dallas’ opening, no introduction to characters as audience is familiar with the characters faces. Starts with a huge explosion: suggesting that Dallas isn’t just a normal town; characters lives are exciting. Also suggests greed of the family; they want more oil (more valuable to them than gold). See the helicopter that in the original trailer, the camera was placed in, suggests that they are wealthy and own the helicopter which the audience only assumed within the original trailer.
Long establishing shot shows huge amount of space. Huge buildings made of polished glass highlights the amount of money within this city. Camera makes them look like we are flying over Texas in a helicopter, makes audience wonder whether characters own the helicopter. Season 13 of Dallas’ opening, no introduction to characters as audience is familiar with the characters faces. Starts with a huge explosion: suggesting that Dallas isn’t just a normal town; characters lives are exciting. Also suggests greed of the family; they want more oil (more valuable to them than gold). See the helicopter that in the original trailer, the camera was placed in, suggests that they are wealthy and own the helicopter which the audience only assumed within the original trailer.
DALLAS 2012: COMING SOON TRAILER: Non-diegetic minor chords to create a tense atmosphere. Drums to create suspension/tragedy. Dark lighting suggests drama. Establishing shot of a white house within a green field emphasises the wealthy family. Title cards give answer to characters question, ‘all this time my family has been fighting over oil and for what, ‘Money’. Bobby is now established as the good guy/ the “moral compass”. Viewings have fallen, family is falling apart. Become too greedy and needy, losing friends. Drama comes from closeness of family, but falling out over money.
Scenes within Dallas
Scene one: opening shot of a huge white door, instantly showing wealth and status. Calming/soothing major chords, suggests romance with no tragedy. Both characters are wearing clean, cream clothes, again highlighting the class. Non-diegetic score becomes minor keys, suggests to the audience that something is about to happen. Camera cuts to inside of the car, suggesting a car accident/ death. Music reaches a crescendo (climax) audience are aware of their aims.
Scene one: opening shot of a huge white door, instantly showing wealth and status. Calming/soothing major chords, suggests romance with no tragedy. Both characters are wearing clean, cream clothes, again highlighting the class. Non-diegetic score becomes minor keys, suggests to the audience that something is about to happen. Camera cuts to inside of the car, suggesting a car accident/ death. Music reaches a crescendo (climax) audience are aware of their aims.
Scene two: last scene in Dallas: Woman is sleeping in full make-up. Shows they are fake and into their appearance. Non-diegetic score is very morbid, but becomes a few calming chords. All 12 seasons were a dream. Wears a long dressing gown. Room is all tidy and everything is ordered, suggests she can afford people to come in and clean it.
Dallas 2012 Trailer
- Establishing shot. slow pan of a city with lots of roads. Non-diegetic minor chords open the shot creating a very tense atmosphere.
- Cut to each scene with a fade of blackness. Dark colours symbolise "dark" actions. Negative images.
- Cut to, close up of J.R.'s hand (0.07 seconds) wearing a solid gold watch shows wealth and class. Sat in a chair opposite a huge window, however light is still dim. He supports blue pjs and a gold coloured cover, suggesting his importance within the soap.
- (0:08 seconds) Cut to Man stood up wearing a suit, suggests class, buisness man. Interested in money. MCU on face to suggest there is no way out. Audience can grasp emotion on his face. 'and for what?'
- Cut to a title card that says 'MONEY'- card answers the question so the viewers are automatically aware of the problem. MES= A huge field, lots of space emphasises wealth again.
- (0:10 seconds) Cut to Shot revearse shot, shows conversation. Non-degetic drum beats suggest tension within the two characters portrayed. Camera become Symmetrical composition. MCU to again enforce the emotion and hatred between the two characters.
- Cut to another title card, "POWER". Key words add drama to the trailer.
- (0:16 seconds) Cut to LS of two character speaking. In a living room with one little light on, suggests hiding from something. Woman is wearing a dress suggests that she takes care of her appearance. Cut to CU of characters face. Her hair is perfect with the perfect make-up, shows she takes pride in her appearance.
- (0:17-0:18 seconds) Cut to a black out, suggests that the issue (climax) has hit a new point. Keeps audience interested.
- "I don't want them to be like us" cut to an over the shoulder shot of J.R. His face is lit up from one side with a serious expression. Enhances his importance within the storyline.
- Fast pace editing through numorous shots, which the audience only get a glimps of. suggests that the family are becoming out of control. Fast paced, non-diegetic drum beats. (The beats match the editing)
- (0:23 seconds) Cut to another establishing shot of a white house, contrasting with the green field. Looked after, suggests that they can afford help to clean the house and the surrounding grounds. Fast tracking pan towards the house.
- (0:40 seconds) Intertextuality of the original score of 'Dallas'. Brand Identity, audience are familiar with this score, and so can gain brand loyalty.
- Cut to a title card at the end (0:554 seconds) with loud non-diegetic sounds, again the re-appearance of the original 'Dallas' score. Targeting the adult audience who are familiar with these conventions.
- Stereotypical cow boy with a hat and riding a horse in a huge field at the end, references to the soap being set in Texas.
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