Within our course, as well as creating our
primary product of a soap opera trailer we created two ancillary tasks in the
form of a poster advertising our soap opera trailer and its current storyline
associated with our trailer and a soap opera TV listings magazine focusing on
our soap opera Maple Way.
The research we have compiled on each one
for certain conventions such as storyline, setting and characters links into
all three of our tasks as the same characters are shown in each product and
whether it is through body language in the poster and trailer or associated
storylines in the magazine front cover certain personalities and character
archetypes within soap operas are portrayed, this is just one example of how
the links between our products need to be considered when planning it as
conventionally with mise en scene and narrative the trailer, poster and
magazine front cover storylines should all match in order to attract, keep and
be clear to your audience what is happening.
Trailer and Poster
Our trailer and our poster for Maple Way
are both very explicitly matched, with the cast wearing the same costumes this
promotes the fact that both products are making allusion to the same
contemporary storylines feature, storylines such as Rachel’s incoherent intentions
for a relationship with Ben are starting to surface, this and the body language
from the other characters portrays their personalities within both without the
use of dialogue, we have not given too much about the characters or storyline
of our trailer, not even the sound of the characters voices.
There is a collection of information
conventionally shown at the end of a
trailer and placed upon an editing poster of similar products, this
information, which with Maple way as an example contains a certain day and even
hour of broadcasting, is a very
important convention for soap opera products in general to consider in terms of how much you want
your audience to know, as one could fully inform the audience of the poster or
of the trailer of the time it will be aired but also to add suspense there
could be a more vague and implicit amount of information accompanying the name
of the soap opera and the selling point which can be a voiceover on a trailer
or as a main tagline of the current narrative on a poster, it is usually a rhetorical question which could be
answered with the phrase ‘…Find out next Wednesday on BBC1’
Magazine and Trailer
Our magazine and trailer link extremely well
in terms of narrative they both contain the same storylines with similar
audience attracting taglines persuading an audience to watch this medium, they
are linked in the aims of attract audiences and work together in this respect,
another link is also the characters and the body language portrayed through
each of our individual character.
Whereas normally a magazine such as this
would cater for a very large audience and include taglines from a wide variety
of soap operas another, perhaps unconventional link we have made is one
regarding the sheer amount of Maple Way taglines on the cover of the soap opera
TV listings magazine, and the lack of any from separate soap operas, this is
due to the fact that sometimes these magazines decide on doing a special
edition simply for one particular soap opera, which is an edition style we have
decided to follow in order to include simply maple way narrative on the
magazine, which
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