Billboard

Q4

Q4 from aq111824

Q3

Q3 from aq111824

Q2 pages 7 and 8

Q2 pages 2,3,4,5 and 6

Q2

Q1

Q1 from aq111824

Final Trailer

Soap magazine front cover

Q4 Notes

Q4: How did you use technologies in the research and planning, construction and evaluation stages of your coursework? These are the lists for the screen recordings you need to make to explain what you did in the Mac Suite. Once you have done them all, pop them into iMovie and edit together with title cards at the start of each section to explain what is being shown, and subtitles during to talk the examiner through each action. Then upload to YouTube and label your posts as: Q4: How did you use technologies in the research and planning, construction and evaluation stages of your coursework? For Garageband, only do the screen recording for the method you used, you don't need to do both. iMovie: 1. open and import a couple of clips 2. drag a clip to timeline and trim 3. drag another clip and trim, add a transition between the two clips 4. adjust sound levels- make background noise quieter, make vocals louder, 5. add a soundtrack and duck sound so dialogue can be heard 6. crop in on a clip if camera too far away to capture actor's emotion 7. add slow motion if you used it. 8. show steps taken to upload to YouTube/Vimeo Keynote: 1. open and select correct slide size (1280x720) 2. remove existing text boxes (lassoo and hit backspace) 3. save background image to desktop and drag onto slide 4. drag ITV2 logo onto slide and adjust size and position 5. using the alpha tool, make the white background of the logo transparent 6. add text boxes with name and time of soap 7. open "inspector" tool, select yellow diamond tool at the top to alter transitions 8. select "build in", add effect, change duration 9. select "build out", add effect, change duration 10. preview and change till everything works in the right order and at the right speed. Garageband (basic loops): 1. open and select "loops" from file options 2. file + add new track if not one there 3. drag your song from desktop/iTunes into new track 4. hover mouse halfway up track so "crop" symbol shows and shorten your track at start until the sound starts roughly where you want it to. 5. zoom in so soundwaves show in detail and crop until the sound is accurate to the beat 6. go to where you want your clip to end, place red line (called the "playhead") at right place, right click and "trim to playhead" 7. crop until sound is accurate to the beat. 8. hover mouse at top of clip until "loop" symbol appears, click and drag so your chosen piece of music loops until it is the desired length 9. save and export to desktop 10. import to iMovie Garageband (advanced loops) steps 1-7 are same as above: 1. open and select "loops" from file options 2. file + add new track if not one there 3. drag your song from desktop/iTunes into new track 4. hover mouse halfway up track so "crop" symbol shows and shorten your track at start until the sound starts roughly where you want it to. 5. zoom in so soundwaves show in detail and crop until the sound is accurate to the beat 6. go to where you want your clip to end, place red line (called the "playhead") at right place, right click and "trim to playhead" 7. crop until sound is accurate to the beat.8. Open new track and drag song in again 9. crop to part you want to blend and make accurate, then drag along timeline to point you want it to start playing 10. Show blue volume lines, click to add points and adjust volume of both tracks to blend 11. drag along timeline to match beats so sound runs smoothly 12. export to desktop and import to iMovie

E4 viewing figues

The viewing figures for a few E4 programmes which are similar to my trailer. These have clearly proven to be successful and popular and that is why I wish to emulate them. By following their codes and conventions.

Q2 Chosen structure

I aim to follow this structure when presenting my second evaluation question, as I believe it is a neat and simple format. I also prefer this method as I am unsure of how to use Prezi, so using publisher may save time.

Trailer soundtrack

I used this soundtrack to accompany my trailer as I found the tempo and sound suitable to match the emotions and actions within my trailer.

E4 Style guide

I will use this style guide to follow the codes and conventions used by E4, to make my products look professional.

Existing Billboard

Q2 First draft

Q4 Keynote demonstration

Q4 imovie demonstration

Title card for Kingley Grove

Soap Trailer 3rd draft

Trailer 2nd draft

Ancillary Billboard 1st draft

Tv Mag front cover 1st draft

Rejected clips

Trailer 1st draft

Presentation Notes

Soap opera presentation notes stephen lyons from aq111824

Soap Magazine Front cover

Ancillary task pictures

As a group we were tasked with creating an ancillary trailer whilst mocking a hollyoaks trailer. We used handheld cameras, therefore the quality wasnt as good as that of an SLR camera. However it allowed us to test camera angles and shots in order to follow the conventions of a trailer. It gave us practise that could be used for our final piece. Some of the setting used did not have the correct light and we could learn from this.

Tv mag analysis

Tv magazine analysis from aq111824

Realism soaps

Realism soaps from aq111824

Hollyoaks trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA1_fukwPXU

Hollyoaks trailer analysis

·         Non diagetic background beat could symbolise heartbeat as the tempo speeds up at tense scenes.

·         Two shot allows the main character of the shot Paul to dominate the frame. This may be symbolism for his dominance in the relationship. 4s-6s

·         Whole of Paul’s face is shown in full focus, in comparison to Mercedes who only has half of her face shown and is not in full focus.

·         Set in kitchen due to tiles on wall, is establishing two shot. Mercedes is at front and therefore seems to be the dominant character. Softer artificial light may hint safety. 7s-9s

·         Paul is at front of shot and out of focus, showing that he is not the centre of attention of the shot. It is made clear that the distant characters who are in focus are the main aim of the shot. 10s-11s

·         Bridge is made between shot in bar and office to show that dialog about a woman is linked to the woman in the office scene. 15s-17s

·         Fast cut edits are used to show quick emotions and holds suspense as it links to the increased tempo of the heartbeat background sound.

·         Extreme close up shot of 5 missed calls from Jacqui shows that something must be urgent. The shot itself allows us to see what they are seeing, without using a point of view shot. 18s-19s

·         Paul’s face dominates this frame again as he is above Mercedes and the whole of his face is shown and the front of Mercedes isn’t shown which hides emotion. 27s-31s

·         Last shot bridges between Mercedes on the phone to Jacqui when leaving the hospital and arriving at the flat. 34s-36s

·         Trailer just focuses on one storyline.