PLAN FOR POSTER 1 & 2

 

-Jordan Kenneally

TITLE SCREEN IDEA

This is the Channel 5 screen we will base our title screen on.  To ensure it is professional-looking we will try to use the same, or very similar, fonts in the same colours and include the same information and layout.

-Lauren Tween

SHOT LIST

	Type	Length
Shot 1	Pan of Marris	6 secs
Shot 2	Long shot of man entering shop	1 sec
Shot 3	Mid 2 shot of village people	2 secs
Shot 4	Upward tilt of pub sign	2 secs
Shot 5	High angled close up of Marris	1 sec
Shot 6	Close up of clenched fist	1 sec
Shot 7	Upward tilt of Beryl	3 secs
Shot 8	Close up of Marris	2 secs
Shot 9	Downward tilt of phone box	1 sec
Shot 10	Over-the-shoulder shot of Dom and friend outside pub	4 secs
Shot 11	Close up of Marris	1 sec
Shot 12	Handheld shot of Dan Clark and Kirk Smith and dog running	3 secs
Shot 13	Long shot of man exiting shop	3 secs
Shot 14	Pan of pub	2 secs
Shot 15	Close up of Marris	1 sec
Shot 16	Establishing shot of road and sign post	6 secs

-Lauren Tween & Amy Bowman

AUDITIONS VIDEO

- Jordan Kenneally, Lauren Tween, Amy Bowman

CASTING AND AUDITION IMFORMATION

For our trailer we will need to ask people to to act as the roles of the characters we have made up for our soap. As we have made detailed character profiles, we would like our actors to match these profiles as much as possible, and therefore hopefully they would bring all our soap opera ideas to life.
As we are only filming a trailer, not all the characters we made profiles for would be included, below are the characters we would include and the requirements that we wanted our actors to have so they could play those roles. We would audition people for a certain role if they matched the requirement for a character.

Marris Morris - Male, aged 45-65, grey hair.
This part will be played by Jim Kenneally.

Beryl Clark - Female, aged 60+, kind looking.
This part will be played by Irene Kenneally.

Hetty Clark - Female, aged 30-50, brown hair.
This part will be played by Karen Tween.

Kirk Hudson - Male, aged 16-17.
This part will be played by Jordan Kenneally.

Dan Smith - Male, aged 14-15.
This part will be played by Lee Kenneally

Extras - General public. All ages.
These parts will be played by Harrison Brittion-Ramsey (Dom Morris), David Watts, Lauren Tween and Amy Bowman.

We decided that these people would play our characters over other auditionees, because they fitted our descriptions, took direction well and were confident and available to play the part.

-Amy Bowman & Lauren Tween

CASTING INFORMATION

After we held our auditions, as a group we decided upon who we will cast for our trailer. Making these choices were difficult as we really wanted to make sure we picked suitable people who were enthusiastic, willing and able to follow given directions. Once we had made these decisions, we sent another email informing those successful applicants of an up coming filming date. As we had decided to film on two different days, we felt we would discuss the next filming schedule in person to the actors when they arrive for our first filming day. In the email we included where and when to meet and what they need to bring with them.

Below is a copy of an email we sent out: 

-Lauren Tween & Amy Bowman

AUDITION INFORMATION

We will need to hold auditions to find actors for our soap opera trailer.

We wanted to audition many people so that we have a wide choice as to who to choose for each role. We decided that instead of just asking people if they would come along for an audition, we would email them. We thought this was a good idea as they could read it at their leisure, and are less likely to forget about it. It also adds to the professional feel of our production and by sending an email, potential actors are more likely to take us seriously.

Below is a copy of the email I sent out:

- Amy Bowman

EQUIPMENT NOTES

In order to create a soap opera trailer, we will obviously need the relevant equipment that will allow us to do so. To make our trailer we used a camera, a tripod, SD card, an Apple Mac and it's software.
The Camera
To compose our film, the camera we used was a Panasonic HDC - TM900. Strengths of the camera include HD recording and playback, meaning the images we captured were crisp and colourful, which overall gave our soap opera trailer a professional quality.

The Tripod
Although for our AS project we decided to use a tripod to film the majority of our film opening, this year for our soap opera trailer, we thought we would mainly film by hand. We decided upon this as we felt our shots would be smoother, more natural and we would be in control. We hoped that by not using the tripod as much, it won't seem as static and will add to the aim of verisimilitude we want.


SD Card
Although the SD memory card is the smallest part of our equipment, it's importance is huge in the scheme of things. Without the memory card, our camera would not allow us to film any footage at all. As we knew we would have a lot of footage to capture, including our final project, auditions, and animatic storyboard, it was important that the memory card we used was suitable and could hold all this work, therefore we will use an 8GB card.

Apple Mac and it's software
To edit all our work, we will use an Apple Mac, this is because the opportunities it gives to us in regards to our soap opera trailer, are much more vast than that of a normal PC computer. For our rough cut we use the Imovie software on the Mac, this is a program that we are all very confident operating from using it previously for our AS project. Although this has a downfall in that there is not as much editing facilities given to us as there is on the other software called Final Cut Express. We think that once our rough cut is finished we will see what standard it is at, and decide whether we should move it to Final Cut Express for our final soap opera trailer, as of course we want it to look as professional as possible.


-Amy Bowman & Lauren Tween

LIGHTING NOTES

Considering we are filming in November and lots of our soap trailer is filmed outside, we need to film on a day with good weather conditions and earlier on in the day as darkness approaches quickly in the winter evenings.

A small amount of our trailer will be in an interior setting (inside pub/in houses); therefore, if natural light is not prominent, we will have to use some artificial light.  In order for our film to look professional, we need to ensure the artificial light is of a good standard so the camera can pick up fine details.

In terms of high key and low key, we want to keep the lighting verisilitude to real life as we would like our soap to be as realistic as possible. 

This is the coffee shop from Hollyoaks and it shows high key artificial lighting.



This is an example of both low key natural lighting and low key artificial lighting via the candles.



This is an example from Emmerdale of high key natural lighting.

-Amy Bowman & Lauren Tween

ROUGH PLAN FOR TRAILER

To decide what would be in our trailer, we had to have a rough plan for a first episode of our soap if we were to make it. We decided that this first episode would have the 2 village youths, Kirk and Dan, they would be trying to get served in the pub, Marris rejects them and makes them angry. They have an argument which results in Marris insulting Kirks much loved dog, Mick. Kirk then punches Marris and the two boys flee with the dog.

 Beryl goes to Marris's aid, and he finally admits that he needs help with his everyday problems.

From this rough storyline we have created, making the plan for our trailer became an easier job. After much thought we decided that the trailer would include Marris on the floor, after being punched, and the trailer would follow his flashbacks taking the audience back to some of his happier times.

We thought the use of flashbacks would make our trailer exciting and dramatic.  This means that we can get alot of shots of the area the soap is going to be set in in and different characters in a fairly short amount of time.  It also means we will not be restricted to only one area of the soap setting and, as its the introductory trailer for our soap, we want to show the audience as much as possible to entice them to watch the full soap episode.

-Lauren Tween & Amy Bowman