Thursday, 16 December 2010

A2 media preliminary task soap opera trailer


I don't think that the title card I used is as appropriate to the genre as it could have been, and that is something I hope to have improved in my final piece. However, the title "the college" is consistent with the general Mise en Scene of the piece, what with the colour scheme of red within the college and the public toilets and also the work the girls in the first scene have with them.

Something I hope to improve on before making my final trailer is the framework of the shots. If you compare the shot at 0:04 with the same shot at 0:07, there is a clear difference in where about in the frame the character is. I believe it would have looked more professional for the two shots to have been more similar. A good way to keep this consistent will be to use a two camera set up, so that there is no need to physically move the camera between shots.

Another thing I wish to improve on is the choice of non-diegetic score I use. Although I think I used a score in appropriate places, and of the appropriate key, I just don't think that the sound fits with the action. In my final piece, I will choose a real song, rather than one already on the editing software, to ensure that I have a wider choice, and therefore pick an appropriate score.

Something that I think went well in this shoot was the slap scene. We used a technique whereby the slap was so quick that the viewer doesn't really notice that the hand doesn't actually touch anything, making this a safe thing to do.

 Also, the fact that one of the characters has large blonde hair is playing on the genre, because it is common in many soap operas that the fiesty, agressive, manipulative female character has blonde hair.

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