The document provides details about planning for a soap opera trailer. It discusses forming filming groups and researching similar soap operas. Ideas were drafted involving different scripts and scenarios. Characters were developed including "good" and "bad" roles. Conventions like realistic clothing and locations were considered. The final trailer uses various shot types and close-ups with minimal makeup to feel realistic. It incorporates multiple storylines and a dramatic soundtrack to create intrigue.

1. Name: Ashley Mason
Candidate Number: 4593
Aquinas College: 33435

2. Planning
To begin with myself and seven other students were put into our filming groups. Before we
began filming we had to research ideas and watch similar soap opera trailers such as
Eastenders, Hollyoaks and 90210. Once we had conducted our background research
we came together to discuss and put forward ideas for the trailer. From here we drafted
up ideas, creating simple sketches and scripts.

3. Planning
Each partnership came up with different
scripts and scenarios that we could base our
trailer on. The ideas and material were
viewed and put into discussion to decide
which we thought worked best for the trailer.

4. Planning - Characters
Tyson is the
bad guy of the Craig is a sly
James comes soap, he is character
across as quite known for his who is
nerdy and the Max and previous knowingly
type of person Sophie are criminal cheating with
who would stay the main conviction and his best
out of trouble. But couple of is now making Jack and Charlotte are friends
he seems to be the soap. his money another couple in the girlfriend.
getting involved The are through soap, Jack a teenager
with the wrong dressed selling drugs. who has it all going for
kind of similar to For the soap him is about to get the
people, this can indicate that opera we had shock of his life.
only end badly. they are to dress this Charlotte seems all
interested character in innocent but in reality
in the same dark colours she secretly cheating
kinds of such as black behind Jack’s back.
things to represent
making that he is bad.
them seem
a real
couple.
All the characters are dressed in casual clothing
so that the audience can relate to them and it
makes the soap seem realistic.

5. Q1. In what ways does your
product use, develop or
challenge existing codes
and conventions?

6. Conventions of a magazine cover Other storylines
Masthead
Realistic
characters
Clear picture
Buttons
Big, bold
title
Bright
Attention
colours to
grabbing
grab
headlines
attention

7. Conventions of an existing billboard
Name of soap
Large, clear Main characters
picture
Channel logo

8. Billboard Main characters
Soap
opera E4 purple
name tape
E4 channel
logo

9. Trailer A variety of shot
types are used
including over the
shoulder, establishing
and panning shots.
Close-ups allow the
audience to see the facial
expressions and emotions
of the characters
The soundtrack
to the trailer
creates drama
and suspense
with the tempo
increasing when
emotions are
Very little make-up and high.
causal clothing to create
realism
The locations which the The choice of clothing
scenes are set in are places used by the characters
Camera as 4th wall gives a realistic feeling
that the audience can relate
to. to the soap

10. Storylines
Several storylines are used throughout the trailer to keep the viewer interested.

11. The music that I decided to use for my trailer links well with the story line, ‘I Gave You All’ is
a dramatic song by Mumford and Sons which contains powerful lyrics that fit well with
the events that unfold in my trailer. The part of the song that goes, ‘I gave you all’, can
represent a variety of events. It links well with the unplanned pregnancy of one of the
characters and the cheating scene. ‘And you rip it from my hands’ stands for the
murder of one of the characters boyfriends as he has been taken from her life in the
worst way possible. ‘Well now you’ve won’ fits well with the unknown murderers who
killed the characters boyfriend as they have done what they wanted to do. The fast
paced rhythm of the song gives a panicky feeling and lets the audience know that many
things are happening.