This document is a student's blog post summarizing their media coursework project on creating a soap opera called Bamford. It tracks the student's process and includes links to their final billboard, magazine, and evaluation questions. The student aimed to follow the conventions of soaps like Coronation Street and EastEnders by including aspects like a central pub, close-ups to convey emotion, and shots through fences to spy on characters. Research was also done on composition and shots used in EastEnders.

1. OCR G324
ADVANCED
PRODUCTION
SAMANTHA WILDE
CN: 4949
AQUINAS COLLEGE :33435

2. FINAL BILLBOARD

3. FINAL MAGAZINE

4. To keep track of all my work, I used
‘Blogspot.com’. Here is a link to my
blog:
http://www.sammiwildecoursework.bl
ogspot.com/

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

6. WE WANTED
BAMFORD TO
FOLLOW THE SAME
CONVENTIONS OF
CORONATION STREET
AND EASTENDERS.
ROVERS RETURN IS THE CENTRAL SOCIAL
MEETING POINT FOR CORONATION
STREET, BAMFORD ARMS IS OURS.

7. WE USED TWO-SHOTS, SHOT- WE FOUND THAT THEY ALSO USED BIG CLOSE
REVERSE-SHOTS AND CLOSE-UPS TO UPS TO CAPTURE THE EMOTION, CREATING
ALLOW THE AUDIENCE TO SEE THE CLIMAXES AND TENSION.
REAL EMOTION ON THE ACTOR’S
FACES.
WE ALSO USED FOOTAGE THAT WAS SHOT THROUGH A FENCE; WE
HAD SEEN THIS USED IN EASTENDERS PREVIOUSLY. IT MAKES THE
AUDIENCE FEEL LIKE THEY ARE SPYING ON THE CHARACTERS’ LIVES.

8. SYMMETRICAL
COMPOSITION
MAKE THE AUDIENCE
FEEL LIKE THEY’RE
WATCHING THE
CHARACTER’S FROM A
‘FOURTH WALL’
PERSPECTIVE

9. HERE IS SOME OF THE
RESEARCH I DID INTO THE
SOAP EASTENDERS.