Magazine Front Covers

Title Card Research

We had to research title cards of soap trailers and research how title cards work so well and what needs to be on there. These are a few that I focused on while studying. Many ways that these title cards work so well is because they create binarys and conflict.

Soap Poster Ideas

This is a selection of ideas for our billboard/ poster with the name of our soap and taking ideas from what our soap is going to be about.

Magazine/ Title Card Work

Before starting the planning for the soap trailer we looked at tv soap front covers and made one of own. We looked into the conventions of a tv soap magazine and reasons why it attracts audienes. This was my tv soap magazine and mock up ideas of a billboard for my tv soap trailer.

Pitch of Soap Trailer

This was a pitch of a soap trailer that i made quickly with some still images from an east enders episode which had a track of a song I made.

Locations

For our soap trailer we are going to use many different locations and jump from scene to scene. The main locations we are going to film in are in Stockport. These are going to be - Hazel Grove. Grand Central Train stations,  Mersey Walk Side and Aquinas College.

Train stations- This location would be a great location to film the part of the soap trailer where the boy and girl break up because train stations have connotations with distance and journeys away. Many different shots can be taken at this location such as a tracking shot of the train, two shot of the couple, pov of each character, pov of passengers on board the train and perhaps an establishing shot. The problem with using a public train station to film at will generate noise that we dont want in the film.

Mearsy Bridge- This location is perfect for our chasing scene because of the long path and dark bridge. The bridge has graffiti on it which will attract the younger audiences which our soap trailer is all about. This location is perfect for tracking shots and POV shots.

Bedroom- This location of a bedroom is going to be used to show the scene of the boy and girl getting together. They talk and realise they like each other more intimatly. Audiences will realise that their feelings have changed for each other because of the setting and props such as the bed. POV shots and establishing shots will be perfect in this scene.

 Alexandra Park- This location would be perfect to show the scenes where people are walking around and talking and socilising.  

Costumes and Props

While planning our soap trailer we had to take into account the props and costumes we were going to use for the production. This was important because certain props represent different emotions and evoke different feelings. We wanted the actors to look professional and look like the characters they were playing so we used makeup and props ands setting.

The fighting scene- We needed to use dramatic makeup and dark clothing to indicate the fear and danger. Many college students wear hoodies, jumpers, jeans and joggers this means that our costumes used are the usual actor’s daytime clothes.

Props- We used mobile phones and references to social networking sites such as facebook. This suggests that we are targeting a teenage audience as many other people around this age range relate to their mobile phones and social network sites. We also used pratical props such as benches and beds and suitcases.

Simliar Soap trailers

Simliar Soap trailers

Previous Script

This is the script of the soap trailer that I planned to use with my class mate Jack before he became ill and had to take some time off college. I saved all the planning that I did with Jack so I could indicate to the examiners that I worked extremley hard- by changing from one group to another and dropping what I had planned and adapting to the story that the other group had. I brought some of my ideas and planning into the other group and because I had planning as a group- we used this our advantage. We took my ideas and moulded them into something similar which suited what they had already. This was my drafted script.

Start of soap trailer-

1)   entering school in a hurry and mad rush of people.
      (lots of talking and different conversations)

2) " Football tonight man! You're going down!" Boys talk to each other.

3) "Yeah right- we will see... " Boys talk to each other....snickers and walks off.

4) "Please dont be positive... " Girl in toilet staring at pregency test.

5) "So when are you gonna come back to the boys and what you are actually meant to be doing instead of bedding your girlfriend all the fricken time?!" Boys break out into a fight.

6) "Ellie... I'm pregent." Girl admits to her friend as tears roll down her cheeks.

7) POV of phone- "I am callling you Mrs Cunnigham to inform you that your daugher is being excluded from school for one week for breaking the rules on conduct and vandalism." Phone call home to parents of pregent girl- she is innocent and being set up by football lads to cause tension and hope it will break the boy and girl up so friend returns.

8) "You need to believe me I didnt do it!" Girl shouts at the teachers and crys- goes to hold her belly- panics realising she shouldnt have indicated her pregency and ran from the school.

9) "I still love you." The boy admits his feelings and holds her.

Previous planning before I moved groups.

Before moving groups I researched and planned a soap trailer based on something like waterloo road or eaastenders. This was because it was easy to film something similar to these soaps within my college. I worked with a class mate called jack and we story boarded a clip of eastenders that was similar to what we were looking to make.

Setting: High School.
Plot: The camera switches between several different stories within the school. Story1) Girls and boys enter school in mad rush. 2) girls in bathroom taking pregency test- "I cant believe it." 3) Boys playing football- fight breaks out. "You arnt one of us anymore." Boy has left his mates for the girl. 4) Teacher calls home and informs parent of vadalisim. 5) Girl runs away.
Shots: Mostly POV, MCU, ECU, R.A edits.
Locations: Within college.
Actors: Friends.
Edits: Wipe out, fade.

Script.

Script.. TO BE FINISHED..

Storyline/ Script:

SCENE ORDER AND CHARACTERS

1. Train station (start) – Girl 1, Guy 1
2. Bridge chase fight scene – Guy 2, Attacker Guy 1, Attacker Guy 2, Main Attacker Guy 3
3. Train station (getting angry) -  Girl 1, Guy 1
4. Toilets girl being pregnant – Girl 2
5. Walking down the street, guys talking about football – Guy 1, Guy 3, Guy 4
6. Pregnant girl telling friend – Girl 2, Girl 3
7. Girl circling around her with people kissing – Girl 4, Girl 5, Guy 2
8. Train station (arguing) - Girl 1, Guy 1
9. Park, holding girl back – Girl 5, Guy 4
10. Girl fight rolling scene - Girl 4, Girl 5
11. At home, door scene – Girl 3
12. Leaving house, phone call scene – Girl 4
13. Suitcase bedroom scene – Girl 5, Guy 2
14. Brick wall – Girl 2, Guy 3
15. Train station ending – Girl 1, Guy 1
16. Final shot of group all together, with show times on screen – Girl 1, Girl 2, Girl 3, Girl 4, Girl 5, Guy 1, Guy 2, Guy 3, Guy 4

Extras – 

Attacker Guy 1

Attacker Guy 2
Main Attacker Guy 3

Group of friends -

Girl 1 – Girlfriend on the train station

Girl 2 – Pregnant girl, tells friend, gets distress on brick wall

Girl 3 – Friend of pregnant girl, girl shutting door at home

Girl 4 – Girl who is hurt by people kissing, gets in fight with that girl, gets suspended

Girl 5 – Girl who kisses guy, gets in fight with girl who sees this, breaks up with guy in suitcase scene

Guy 1 – Boyfriend at train station, Guy getting bullied by football friends

Guy 2 – Gets chased and beat up, guy kissing girl, guy gets dumped in suitcase scene

Guy 3 – Football bully, helps distress girl at brick wall

Guy 4 – Football bully, holds girl back


Not in order:

· Train station/Heaton Norris park:

Begins with Boy 1 and Girl 1 on bench
Establishing shot, long shot, to full shot, to close up, to two shot, to extreme close up to his face

Boy 1:    “We’re in trouble”

Extreme close up of eyes shift and worried.
Close up of her face looking at him all worried.

Starts music, fast paced.

· Mersey Way Bridge and path:

Low angle floor shot, see Boy 1 run pass, puddle splash, quickly followed by 3 guys chasing him.

Attackers:           “Oui!”
Attackers:           “Get here”

Switch to hand held point of view of Boy 1, camera falls to ground. Quick switch to side view of Boy 1 half gets up, as you see Attackers catch up and grab him, grab his hood and throw him back and push him around a bit. 

Boy 1:                    “Get off me”

Switch back to point of view, low angle looking up at attackers. Two attackers holding him down, main attacker in middle.
(More aggressive)

Attacker 1:          “You sneaky shit!”

                Switches to over the shoulder shot of main attacker looking down at Boy 1.

Boy 1:                    “It wasn’t my fault”

Switch back to point of view.

Attacker 1:          “You said you wouldn’t tell anyone, it had to stay hidden, you’ve ruined everything for me”

Boy 1:                    “I didn’t have a choice though, it was getting out of hand, I had to tell someone. I                                               -                              couldn’t keep it to myself any longer!”
Attacker 1:          “You’re just a pathetic...”

                                PUNCH! In the camera

· Train station/Heaton Norris park:

Two shot of Boy 1 and Girl 1 on the bench. Then to over the shoulder, reverse angle edit.
(Starting to get annoyed at each other)

Girl 1:                    “How did it come to this? You said we wouldn’t have a problem”
Boy 1:                    “It’s wasn’t just me that slipped-up. We all decided to do this”
Girl 1:                    “But it was always about you, we did this all to help you!”

· Different montage of quick sequences:

Music gets really loud and fast

· Walking down the street:

Track of 3 boys walking down the street towards to camera, handheld. Switch from two shot of Boy A and Boy B, to close up of Boy C.

Boy A:              “That was a rubbish lesson, almost fell asleep"
Boy B:              “Yeah but at least we've got football tonight man! You're going down right!"
Boy C:              “Yeah, well we'll see. I've got to see my girl tonight"
Boy A:              “Why are you with that skank all the time? We're your really mates"

Boy B:              "Are you gonna come back to the boys and do what you are actually meant to be doing instead of bedding your girlfriend all the fricken time?!"

· In home toilets, girl sat with back to the bath:

Small pan of bathroom to side view of Girl A, lots of close ups of her face, and extreme close ups of her eyes and hands. Girl starring at pregnancy test.

Girl A:                    “Please don’t be positive... "

· Cut to outdoor location:

Over the shoulder and two shot

Girl A:              “Girl B.. I’m pregnant”
Girl B:              “Oh god, it’ll be okay”

Girl B hugs Girl A. Then secretly gives snicker look towards Girl A while hugging, over shoulder shot.

· Park/ anywhere:

Girl X, quick zoom/ walk towards her with the camera, then circles around her to over the shoulder of her seeing a boy and girl kissing. She has shock face.

· Park/ anywhere:

Over shoulder of Boy/Girl Z with Girl Y running towards the camera, as Boy/Girl Z holds them back 

Girl Y:              “Nooo!!”

· Train station/Heaton Norris park:

Two shot of Boy 1 and Girl 1 on the bench. Then to over the shoulder, reverse angle edit.
(In heated argument). Angry face.

Girl 1:                    “I can’t believe you did this. You’ve ruined everything for us”
Boy 1:                    “Just stop it”

· Alex park (hill):

Long shot of two girls about to fight each other. Switches to over the shoulder.

Girl 2:                    “Ahh you bitch!”

Switches to over the other shoulder.

Girl 3:                    “What?!”

                Girl 2 ruby tackles Girl 1 to the ground on hill, scuffling, starts rolling towards reservoir. Switched to long shot of them 

· At home, bedroom:

Fade in black. POV of clothes falling on camera, switches to side view of Girl 8 throwing clothes out of a suitcase Guy 9 as he wakes up.

Girl 1:                    “What have you done? We’re finished!”

· Leaving the house:

(Filming girl on phone, then person on phone to use dialogue to make over voice). Girl 20 walks out the front door and tracks her walking walks to go to college towards camera, phone rings, get phone out of pocket, extreme close up of phone ‘College calling’. Close up of her face as she’s on phone.

Girl 20:                        “Hello”

College:           “Girl 20 we have decided that we have suspended you for the week on the accusations that you have vandalised the school grounds”

· At home/ indoors:

Girl M runs into a room and closes the door, holds on to the door handle trying to keep the door shut. Medium close up from diagonal, showing her and the door.

· Brick wall:

Girl P (pregnant girl?) crying and then Guy/Girl Q grabs her buy the coat and shoves her against the wall. Over the shoulder and two shot, handheld.

Guy/ Girl Q:                 “Pull yourself together”

· Final scene: Train station/Heaton Norris park:

Two shot of Boy 1 and Girl 1 on the bench. Then to over the shoulder, reverse angle edit, close up of the sad faces.
(Sad ending)
Girl 1 gets up and collects bag

Girl 1:                    “I can’t do this anymore”

Switches to camera from across the tracks, train pulls up, stops (quickly stops, fasts up) train pulls away, just him on the bench.

· Ending, brick wall:

Whole group leaning against the wall. Switches to title card. Show times and channel.

Planning

The planning process for my soap trailer was hard because the person I initially was working with became ill so I had to then drop all my ideas and join another group and pick up their ideas. In ways this benefited me though by teaching me to become more independent and plan more. 

There was certain things we had to focus on in our planning for the soap trailer such as camera shots (MCU, CU, ECU, Canted, LS, MS) and movement (Pan, tilt, track, Crane) and how the movements create meanings and feelings. Mis en scene had to be taken into account because particular locations and costumes create different meanings (location, costume, backdrop.) The props we used we things such as a mobile phone, bags, hoodys, beds ect. These were used in different scenes and different locations. Costumes that were used were normal teenage clothes suggestions of jeans and a t shirt. In the chasing scene we asked the actors to wear dark hoodys to indicate the representation of danger and youth. We used both diegetic and non diegetic sounds such as sound effects. The editing types we used are dissolves, fades, editing techniques and looked into how these create meaning and generate an emotional responce.

Ideas for Soap Poster Ideas:

These are some of the ideas for our currant soaptrailer poster. We placed our brand name on top of images of bustops and billboards.