Ancillary Research and Planning

Here is a group mind map of names for our TV magazine and the design for the masthead.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ancillary Practice- Coronation Street

Soap Conventions

Soap conventions

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• 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.

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Trailers

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