In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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Conventions of magazine front covers. 1

Date

Large masthead, top left hand side of page

Price in star bubble, bold font.

Very basic colour scheme for background and masthead.

Characters referred to by first name

Anchoring subheading

Barcode “England”

Large capitalised clear font- easy to read

Cover stars are looking out at reader to engage them.

Bold colourful borders around extra features.

My front cover. 1

Date

Large masthead, top left hand side of page

Price in clear bold font

Very basic colour scheme for background and masthead.

Characters referred to by first name

Anchoring subheading

Barcode

Large capitalised clear font- easy to read

Cover stars are looking out at reader to engage them.

Bold colourful borders around extra features.

“North”

Conventions of existing e4 billboards. 1

Clear e4 logoMain characters

Social themes clearly represented/ personalities clearly represented

Large clear picture

Conventions of existing e4 billboards. 1

Clear e4 logoMain characters

Personalities clearly represented

Large clear picture

Anchoring text

1Soap forms and conventions.

Camera shots used to involve the audiences, such as over the shoulder shot to create a 3rd person narrative or camera as fourth wall.

Natural make-up, characters look good but not made up, they are realistically aspiration

A lot of big close up’s to show reaction shots and facial expressions of characters

Conflict and disequilibrium in each episode

Natural lighting used to create realism

Multiple story lines allows the multiple narratives to be spread across each episode which keeps the viewers interested.

POV involves the audience, making them feel they are there, experiences the action and the characters emotions

Multiple main characters.Allows for parallel narratives and convergences. Often smaller story lines alongside a larger one. Keeps audience interested.

Soap Opera conventions.

Conventions of existing trailers. 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho69_sCkwyI skins trailer shots taken from.

Use of various shots, ranging from close-ups to long shots of characters. Also establishing shots of social grounds. Over the shoulder, point of view and high and low angle shots.

The close ups show clearly the characters emotions and their facial experiences.

Long shots allow the audience to see all the mise-en-scene helping to set up the scene

Conventions of trailers. 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho69_sCkwyI

Pace of the soundtrack reflects the characters emotions.

Fading to white to represent flash backs/flash forwarding.

Use of locations which the target audience can relate to. Involve the audience.

Blurring of scenes to create a sense of ambiguity.

Conventions of existing e4 billboards. 1Blurring. Makes the audience wonder what might have happened next, wants to see it clearer. Also using an extreme close shows the importance of object.

Long shot. Shows the park mise-en-scene, place teenagers might hang out or use as a cut through. Shows the idea that these two characters weren’t suppose to meet up.

Big close up of characters face clearly shows the audience her facial expressions, allowing audience to be involved and to guess at what will happen next.

Establishing shot of the Bamford arms, shows the social class of the characters in the soap by seeing a clear image of their social ground.

Story lines portrayed. 1

Drugs. A is a screen shot from Skins.

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A Teen pregnancy. A is a screen shot from Hollyoaks.

Young brides. A is a screen shot from Hollyoaks.

‘CCTV’. A is a screen shot from Hollyoaks.

Several story lines are portrayed in my trailer. This is to follow the conventions of a soap opera trailer but also make the trailer more interesting and enigmatic

Editing in my trailer 1

The beginning of the trailer starts with the music at a slower pace and the scenes shown in mainly slow motion. This is to introduce the plot lines and the characters carefully. The main characters Mason is introduced with medium close up slow zoomed into a big close up. This is to make it clear to the characters that this character is important, it also allows characters to clearly see his facial expressions and understand his stereotype.

As the trailer continues the music gets faster in pace. This is to reflect the heightening storylines between the characters. The conflict between the 3 male characters is shown more and short cuts are used to show the build up to the violent fight scene. Big close ups of characters are used through out the trailer to portray the characters feelings by clearly showing their facial expressions.

Lighting/sound 1

Natural lighting used throughout the trailer to create a sense of realism.

Shots filmed on location to continue the realism we wanted to portray.

I used a non-diegetic soundtrack to heighten the shown feelings and emotions of the characters .

The song is a passion pit remix which think works well in my trailer as the beat speeds up as the characters clashing lives are shown more. It is also a dance song that could be heard at a party and reflects the teenage lives of the characters.

Similarities, differences and subverting media in my trailer compared to existing products.

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Big close up of Bree. Bamford Big close up of Kelly. Misfits

Big close up of characters.Shows facial expressions clearly .

No dialogue in Misfits.Slight High angle in Bamford whereas eye level in misfits.

.Shows characters expressions of worry when saying ‘It’s Johnny’. Audience understands emotions felt.

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Similarities, differences and subverting media in my trailer compared to existing products.

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Over the shoulder. Bamford Over shoulder shot. Misfits

Over the shoulder shot of character Johnny in big close up.

Can clearly see Mason is the character talking to Johnny in Bamford.

.Audience can see the working class bar mise-en-scene between characters in Bamford, the target audience can relate to this social ground.

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Similarities, differences and subverting media in my trailer compared to existing products.

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2 shot medium close up. Bamford 2 shot medium close up. Hollyoaks

2 shot of characters. Can see mise-en-scene in both scenes are working class lives.

Can’t see Kate’s facial expression in Bamford. Characters take up differing space in shots.

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Audience can see only Sasha’s ( the blackmailer) face in Bamford allowing the audience to see Sasha as Kate would.

Similarities, differences and subverting media in my trailer compared to existing products.

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2 shot medium close up. Bamford 2 shot medium close up. Hollyoaks

2 shot of characters. Can see mise-en-scene in both scenes are working class lives.

Can’t see Kate’s facial expression in Bamford. Characters take up differing space in shots.

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Audience can see only Sasha’s ( the blackmailer) face in Bamford allowing the audience to see Sasha as Kate would.

Similarities, differences and subverting media in my trailer compared to existing products.

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Title card. Bamford Title card. Skins

Clear e4 logo and sharing font and colour scheme.Shows name of soap/TV series

Skin’s follows theme of trailer. Bamford is a completely different shot. Bamford title card shows time of show.

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Fading to white in previous scene challenges conventions of continuing on to the title card.