1. Question 1
how did you USE, CHALLENGE or
DEVELOPE codes and conventions of
real media products

2. They run all year round
and normally episodes Scheduling – usually the
relate to the time of year shows are on to aim at a
or events such as particular age group e.g.
Christmas or Halloween hollyoakes is on early
evening for 16 – 25 year
British soaps are set in a specific
olds
part of the country to show
regional identity e.g. coronation
street is set in Manchester.
Manchester was a city built on
the cotton industry and every Lighting normally
cotton mill would have a brass reflects the mood and
band so coronation street use
brass music as its opening theme
The conventions of story line and filters are
tune to anchor the regional a soap opera also used e.g. blue
identity . filters
Story lines are supposed to Normally they have 4
relate to real issues such as or 5 storylines
divorce, money problems and running at once but
marriage when a story line gets
intense they will
mainly focus on the
one storyline at a
time then move to
another

3. Made to not look constructed, very natural
natural transitions between transitions there’s an Emmerdale , coronation
scenes , needs to be relatable to element of street , eastenders
the audience that why they use continuity nothing
common storylines false or fake
Narrative – anything
relatable to everyday
Lighting- very basic British life such as family
made to replicate arguments, there are more
than one story lines
day light there is
running at the same time
nothing used to and episodes normally end
make the stars face on a cliff hanger
look any different Conventions of a social
realism soap
Characters- drive
the plot
Sound- other that the
opening theme tune,
music is rarely used apart
Catharsis – purging of emotions , from in scenes that
realism allows audience to relate to involve a radio in cafe ect
the emotions and experiences of
the characters

4. Similaritys between my soap and
waterloo road (use)
Big close ups to
Action shots to Showing quick shots
show emotion but
anchor the audience of the most intense
in quick shots to
and over the part if the episode to
build suspense
shoulder shots to draw the audience in
give the audience a
point of view

5. Ways in which I developed existing
codes (hybrid & parody)
I wanted to end my trailer
on an intense line of
dialogue that would want
to make my audience
keep watching I thought
that the waterloo road
line of ‘this isn't over’
wasn't intense enough so I
decided to use ‘ you touch
my baby I swear to god’
because it relates to my
story line more
In this waterloo road trailer the protagonist is
saying ‘this isn't over’ but because I wanted my
characters to be more threatening I used the line
‘ill kill you’ I wanted to developed more interest
and make the trailer more intense and there for
more exciting for my audience

6. Ways in which I challenged
conventions
One way that I went against the normal conventions of a
trailer is by using dubstep in my trailer as my background
music because it hasn't really been used before because
its difficult to work with and to hard to make your edits
fit in because of the inconsistent bass line. but I found a
song that would work quite well in my trailer because the
bass drops perfectly in time when my trailer is at its most
intense. Also Manchester has quite a big dubstep and
drum and bass scene so the music also anchors the
regional identity if my trailer. I felt that water loo road
was to safe with there choice of music ( Dappy- rock star)
and although it did appear to there age group it was also
quite dated and I wanted to use something fresh and
different.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-
Jw

7. Ways in which I used, developed and challenged
conventions in my ancillary products
Once again simple colour scheme showing a high
quality product
Anchoring audience
We can tell who the stars are
The words plus and new are used all over the
magazine showing this isn’t a soap magazine
with regular features this is for new TV
programmes
Name of new TV programme date time and channel
Having a sub – story that I know my audience
will be interested in
I used the same lighting in my front cover as I
did in my trailer unlike the misfits front cover
which use quite harsh while lighting
My front cover challenges conventions by
being a lot cleaner than the misfits front
cover and by only having the 2 enemy's on
the cover and I've sort of dedicated the whole
of my front cover to my trailer and not really
advertised many other shows