1. OCR G324
Advanced Production
BEECHMOUNT
NAME:GEORGIA HUDSON
CANDIDATE NUMBER:4447
Aquinas College: 33435

2. BRIEF

3. EVALUATION QUESTIONS
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
2. How effective is the combination of your main
product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learnt from audience feedback?
4. How did you use media technologies in the
construction and research, planning and evaluation
stages?

4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
Q1. conventions of real media products?
By researching the history of soap operas and
there conventions before we filmed, helped me
understand what was involved with making our
final piece.
Conventions of soap operas...
•Film on a set not a location
•Minimal makeup and ordinary clothes to make
them look like the are apart ‘working class’.
• costume to create a character.
•Camera is a fourth wall (audience feel apart of
the scene)
• Big close ups on the actors faces to create
emotion. Over the shoulder and shot reverse
shots creates more of a intimate feel for the
audience.
•Disequilibrium in each episode to make the soap
interesting to keep viewers.

5. Q1. How does my soap use and conform to the conventions?
High angled shots
Panning
Low angled shot

6. Q1. What makes your trailer soap opera?
Establishing shot
Extreme close up
Close up

7. Q1How does my soap use and conform to the conventions?
.
Close ups reveal emotion
Minimal makeup creates realism
Natural lighting - having filmed in a
dark rooms the lighting needed to be
bright and realistic.

8. Q1. Comparison
Similarities and differences between my media product
and a real media product.
SIMILARITIES
Over the shoulder shot
• The music sets a tone to represent the mood
and emotion of the soap.
• Fast editing to build tension
• Small amounts of dialogue so the story lines
don’t confuse the audience
• Title cards to inform the audience what’s going
on.
• Lighting sets an atmosphere
DIFFERENCES
• Costume represents the characters and their
• Every story line we have is dramatic status.
• Audience can relate to storylines.
• We are a new soap so there for we need to
gain the audiences attention.

9. Q1. Comparison
By having the title cards it
engages the audiences
attention, informs but doesn’t
give too much of the story line
away.
As a group decided to have our
trailer on e4. We studied the e4
style guide and came up with a
final title card which has the
logo and the whole cast on it…
similarr to’ made in Chelsea's’
final title card.

10. Q1.Comparison
Creating a character
In our soap we decided to have a
homosexual, who has decided to come out
gay to his brother. We stereotyped our ‘gay’
character by dressing him in woman’s clothes
to exaggerate his sexuality.
By understanding soap operas conventions
we mocked them and made it into a
GARY
characters profile.
A woman's
necklace
A feminine vest
A take that tattoo
Zebra print sofa
expressing his
Purple shinny eccentric style.
leggings

11. Q1.Comparison
Creating a character GARY
Gary couldn’t deal with his sexuality in the
soap, he tries to take an overdose.
So we had our soap showing past
the watershed
Drugs are quite shocking and wouldn’t be
shown on a soap like Hollyoaks.
A cross dressing man in the soap
also mocked the alpha male status
CHARLTON that you usually have in a soap.
Going against the soap operas
conventions

12. Q1. Creating a characters
Roche and Spenser Gary and downtown Paris and Spenser
are having an affair are brothers are engaged
Charlton, Downton and
Spenser are all friends.
Story Board

13. Q1WeParallel Narratives main features throughout the trailer.
.
used these characters storylines as the
SPENSER
LOVE TRIANGLE
ROCHE PARIS

14. 1. Creating tension through transitions
Transitions (black flashes) create a build up of
tension throughout the trailer.
The soundtrack fitted well with the transitions it
created more tension throughout the trailer.

15. Q1. Soundtrack
For the final trailer we used a song called
‘sweet disposition’ by The Temper Trap for
the soundtrack.
• The song genre is indie/rock which is
aimed at our target audience - teens.
• The key of the song is in a D major which
is the deepest (sad) of keys.
• It makes the audience know that the
disequilibrium in the soap isn't going to
be a happy upcoming episode.
• It starts slow building up tension and
then starts to picks up paste. The drums
kick in when it gets to the fast title cards
at the end.

16. Q4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and
evaluation stages?
I used a website called blogger to upload my planning and documents that I
had made during the process of making my soap opera ( audience research
and my final trailer, billboard and magazine front cover)
http://georgiahudsonsasmediablog.blogspot.com/
Putting my work in order on my blog signifies in what
order we did the work. It made it look professional and
tidy.
This is how you upload a post the blog…