Advert examples

we have been looking at some examples of other saop adverts from around christmas. our favourite was an advert for Eastenders. but you can see them all in the side colume of my blog.

we are using Photoshop and Illustrator, using photoshop we came up with this design that will be our title of the magazine...we chose the font and using photoshop merged the images so that they over lapped to create this christmas themed picture.

THESE THREE PICTURES ARE EXAMPLES OF WHAT THE TITLE COULD lOOK LIKE WITH CHRISTMAS ICONS ON TOP OF THEM!! EVEN THE BASIC CHANGES LIKE WHAT T THE XMAS HAT IS ON COULD MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE!

TV Talent!!!

Here are some ideas for the font styles for our magazine front cover.




AS we are doing a christmas edition we are going to photoshop some sort of festive icon such as a xmas hat or holly or something like that....

Summary so far

We have decided on who is going to act in our soap opera, it is going to star two students from my partner's Alevel drama group. We now need to decide on some sort of script, place of shooting and all the sorts of props and things we need to be in the background.

Name: The Valley

Setting:Living room of a house, that is filled with boxes of things that might belong to an elderly person such as orniments, pictures etc.

Actors:< Ben Dowling and Christy Grimes

Tv magazine name: Tv Talent!

Now that we have everything sorted we can start by creating some sort of script and begin filming... Once we have the trailer for the soap sorted we can use the clips to take still shots to put on the tv magazine.

Problems

We are having problems with our third part of the project as it is to create a poster for the soap, but we are having trouble finding any examples!!!


Also our teacher has just pointed out to us that there is already a tv magazines called TV TIMES! so we need to reconsider what we are going to call our magazine...

We are now going to call our magazine TV Talent!!!

TV magazines

We are now looking at ideas for the second part of the project which is creating a front cover of a tv magazine. tha magazine is going to be advertising our soap and our storyline is going to be the main article. There is also going to be pictures from exsisting soaps.
so my partner started looking at different styles of font for the title, she used TV TIME as an example for the font types.

As our advert is for an episode set around christmas, we looked at tv magazines with christmas themes, as we want our magazine to have chritmas themes on the front cover too...

Camera angles and effects

We have looked on the internet for different exsisting trailers to get ideas such as voice overs and effects.


WE are thinking that we might have to have a close up on the wedding photo or invitation because we need to make it obvious that it the two of them.

We have also started to think about the different camera angles we are going to use to create the different atmostpheres. for example for tension and a dramatic ending we are going to have a mid shot of the wife looking at the paper. and then maybe a close up of her face after Realising what it is, to show the how shocked she is.

We then thought it would add to the tention if as the women drops the Birth certificate on the floor, we follow it down with the camera finishing with a close up of the Birth certificate showing her husbands name!

After our research on trailors we have come to the conlusion that we are going to have the trailor/episopde based in christmas time. This is due to the fact we found that all the best and exciting storylines come out at christmas time. So we are going to use some of the ideas from exsisting trailers such as:

1) Xmas music

2) Voice over (not yet decided on man or women) ex. "Who's the daddy"

3) Flash up of words, such as " loves the dad.... loves the son"

Story line ideas

we have researched many different soap operas and looked at a few of their story lines. from our research we found out that many of the soap operas have the similar sorts of story lines running at the same time as each other.

Here are a few ideas we have thought of after our research:

- Father of a baby finds out he is not the dad.
- long lost children coming back and the mother not knowing it is her.
- a fire.
- married couples finding out they are actually Brother and sister
- teenager with a drug addiction

Etc.....

We decided to go for the story line with the married couple finding out they are actually Brother and Sister. because we wanted something less obviuos and something that is rarelly done on exsisting soaps. We thought we could film the advert like this..

Husband and wife are looking though her dead mothers things. They find photos their wedding photos to show that they are married. Then they find a birth certificate of the husband. This shows that they are actually Brother and sister!

We have not yet decided of a name for our soap. But we are thinking of something along the line of 'The Valley', keeping in the themes of other soaps, of nameing the soap after a area or village.

Research powerpoint

I have made a presentation on The soaps Hollyoaks and Eastenders to help me to make our soap. and help us decided on things Such as, Auidences, cast, characters, setting,places. My partner also made a presentations, on two different soaps, which i have included here.