This document summarizes the techniques used in the filmmaker's soap opera trailer project. It provides examples of how they replicated specific shots and conventions from Coronation Street, including a pull focus between a victim and a knife to imply danger [1]. It also shows their use of tense close-ups to convey threat through character positioning and body language [2]. Finally, it discusses how they animated the Channel 4 logo to anchor it over their clips, matching conventions from Channel 4 trailers [3].

1. QUESTION ONE
Looking at my work in comparison to other realist soaps and the techniques they use

2. USE OF PULL FOCUS
Here is an example of where I have used my initial research and carried ideas
through right to the end where I have used the techniques in my filming and
editing. The pictures on the left show a pull focus used in Coronation Street,
where the victim is shown, in focus, and then it pulls to focus on the knife, which
is an example of foreshadowing. I have replicated this convention in my own
trailer, showing firstly the victim, and then the knife, connoting danger and
maybe even murder.

3. TENSE CLOSE UPS
This is another example of where I
have replicated shots from an
existing realist soap (Coronation
Street) in my own work. I feel this
shot shows real tension and creates
threatening atmosphere.
In both my shot, and the above shot,
it is evident that the antagonist is
dominant in the mise-en-scene
which connotes the danger and
threat that the characters bring
The victims in both scenes show
signs of fear as they are both looking
down and take up less space in the
frame.

4. BRANDING AND
ANCHORING
These screen shots demonstrates
my efforts to follow soap trailer
conventions. I have used the
channel 4 logo. I used KeyNote
to create an animation to use in
iMovie that used
transparency. This meant I
could replicate the
conventions used in channel 4
trailers, as the logo is transparent
which anchors the logo onto the
clips in the trailer.

5. I feel that my soap trailer uses lots of conventions from realist
soaps such as costume, wealth, status and appearance of
characters, and also locations and narratives.
As shown on previous slides, I have also sued many similar shot
types as the ones I found in my research into realist soaps.
I am happy with the style of trailer I chose to create as a pose to
subversion-styled ones which I have talked about in this blog
post below.