FINAL CUT

- Amy Bowman and Lauren Tween

FINAL MAGAZINE COVER

Soapy Scene Cherry Gardens by

This is our final magaine cover.  As you can see, since our draft, we have worked hard to create this final product that we are very proud of.  Our draft lacked images and captions and a professional finish, so we have improved on these things for our final magazine cover.

-Lauren Tween & Amy Bowman

ROUGH MAGAZINE DRAFT

Soapy Scene draft by

This is our first rough draft for our soap opera magazine.  As you can see we are not only advertising our soap Cherry Gardens but also other soaps which means our soap magazine follows the conventions of real soap magazines.  We still need to add more storylines and pictures with complimentary captions.

-Lauren Tween & Amy Bowman

FINAL POSTER

Cherry Gardens poster by    

This is our final poster advertising our soap Cherry Gardens.  As you can see, since our rough cut, we have added actual photographs as opposed to black silhouettes of the characters that will appear.  We have also slightly changed the layout, font and colours.  We have removed the previous blood drips from the 'CHERRY GARDENS' title as this conveys horror; something we are not trying portray as our soap is not gory because it is shown before the watershed.  We also thought this may frighten some viewers away and so have left a subtle suggestion of dark storylines instead of it being 'in-your-face' and obvious.

-Lauren Tween & Amy Bowman

FINAL SCRIPT

Kirk and Dan: fake punch of camera CUT runs away with dog
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Marris: lying on ground looking pained
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Pub owner: walks across pub whilst Bar Tender: tends to bar
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Villager 1: walks through shop door
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Villager 2 and Dan: walk past and observe furniture shop
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Marris: on floor looking pained
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Beryl: reading book
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Marris: on floor looking pained
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Villager 3: walks into phone box
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Dom and friend: sitting, drinking outside pub
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Marris: on floor looking pained
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Dan: walking out shop
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Dom and friend: sitting outside pub
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Marris: on floor looking pained

The script is necessary to ensure our actors know how to perform to meet our vision.
This is our final script, to make it, we reflected upon our two draft scripts and took what worked from them and got rid of what we thought didn't fit.
For our final script, we've taken most our ideas from the already improved draft script 2. We decided to keep the lack of voiceover at the end, which we showed in our second draft. We found that this really worked in our trailer rough cut, and was like by our target audience. We thought it was more suitable to leave the end silent, with just visual words to display our information, rather than speech. We felt that it rounded the whole trailer off nicely, and the audience would go away being more affected by what they have seen, therefore hopefully making them want to watch the soaps opening episode.

-Lauren Tween and Amy Bowman

POSTER LAYOUT IDEA

This was the idea we used in the end.  We chose it as we liked that it didn't give too much of the storyline away but just hinted at it.  It also directly links with our trailer; showing the main characters portrayed in our trailer on it.

Cherry Gardens Soap Initial Poster by

This is our initial poster layout idea.  The silhouettes represent the pictures of our characters that we will take for our final poster.  We decided to change it slightly from the original idea above as we will include every character in our soap on the poster, as an introduction of them to the audience, similar to other pre-existing soap opera posters.  We have also added blood drips from the title to connote an even more sinister feel to our soap and to generate interest so people watch it.

-Lauren Tween & Amy Bowman

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

This is some general feedback about our rough cuts from our target audience.

- Jordan Kenneally, Amy Bowman & Lauren Tween