The document analyzes conventions of real soap magazines, billboards, and trailers and compares them to the media producer's own soap magazine cover, billboard, and trailer. Some key conventions included are using bold colors and images to draw attention, including characters' names, air time/date, and logos to clearly identify the program. Shots like establishing shots, close-ups, and transitions are used similarly between real and student-created products to portray emotions and move between scenes. Differences, like the student trailer having a more serious tone compared to an existing fun trailer, reflect the different narratives.

1. In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and conventions
of real media products?
Q1

2. Conventions of a front cover of a real life soap magazine
Button
Date and price
Large
masthead
Characters
written by first
names
Specific colour scheme.
Very bold colours to
draw attention.
Canted heading Capitalisation to
enhance text
Variety of soaps Rhetorical question to
included involve reader
Main image in centre of
cover
Barcode

3. Conventions my front cover of a soap magazine
Large
masthead
Date and price
Button
Specific colour scheme.
Very bold colours to
draw attention.
Variety of soaps
included
Main image in centre of
cover
Canted heading Capitalisation to
enhance text
Characters
written by first Rhetorical question to
names involve reader
Barcode

4. Conventions of an existing E4 billboard
All main characters
Large clear image
Clear e4 logo
Basic information on programme

5. Conventions of my E4 billboard
All main characters
Large clear image Clear e4 logo
Basic information on programme

6. Soap forms and conventions
A variety of narratives Many close ups are used in Actors have little make up and are made to look as
are used to make sure order to express the realistic as possible, depending on what their
all audiences are characters emotions character is like.
entertained at the same
time.
Multiple main characters used
Soap Conventions to allow a variety of storylines
to take place at one
time, therefore the audience
will not get bored.
British soaps most often
feature
common, ordinary, working
class characters to add to the
realism of the soaps.
Most soap operas have a
recognisable theme tune and is Natural lighting is used to make
one of their unique selling points. the scene as realistic as possible.

7. Conventions of existing soap trailers
Long shots used to capture the main
characters but to also give the
audience a sense of the mise en scene
of the scene.
Reverse angle edit allows the audience to
see the emotions portrayed by two
particular characters in a certain scene.

8. Conventions of existing soap trailers
Establishing shot allows not only the
mise en scene to be clearly seen, but
it also allows all of the characters
and their different emotions and
personalities to be portrayed.
A big close up allows a clear presentation
of the characters emotions and their
facial expressions.

9. Similarities and differences in my trailer comparing to existing products
Georgina – Nangreave Road, Becky – Coronation Street,
High Angled Shot High Angled Shot
I have decided to compare the shot of Becky in
Coronation Street and a shot of Georgina in Nangreave
Road. I chose these two screen shots because they are
both high angled. The only difference is, is that
Nangreave Road has two people rather than one and it
is indoors. The Nangreave Road shot has been edited
to look like a security camera whereas the Coronation
Street is just a plain high angle shot.
Title card – Nangreave Road Title card – X-Men
Both of these title cards show a clear use of the e4
logo, making it clear to the audience that the show is a pert
of e4. The typical purple colour scheme has been used in
both examples of title cards to make the image as
recognisable to the audience as possible. Both advertise the
time and date of when the show is aired to inform the
audience. However the X-Men title card shows a use of an
image in the background to further advertise the show.
Nangreave Road - Transitions Hollyoaks – Transitions
In both of these trailers, transitions are used not only
to provide the audience with information on the
trailer, but to also edit from one scene in the trailer to
another. However whereas the Nangreave Road trailer
is simple with a black background, the hollyoaks trailer
is more colourful and fun. This relates to the storylines
of the soap trailers as the Nangreave Road trailer is
very eerie and mysterious, Hollyoaks is more exciting
and bubbly.