Lighting Information

For our trailer we will be using artificial lighting as we are filming in a photography studio. The lighting will make the characters stand out against the white background and bring out their colourful costumes. As we are using artificial lighting we can film at any time of the day as it will not be affected. The photos we take for both poster and magazine will give good quality photos with a professional finish. Also, the actors will look vibrant and fresh.

The artificial lighting may connote a sense of class and emphasise the fact that these people are of a high standard. The bright lights against the white background will make it look classy. If we planned to base our trailer in a darker environment we don't believe it would give off the same feel of status and class and would not present these people in the way that we intend. Using an artificial light will also help to maintain continuity as we will to using the same HMI lights all the way through the trailer.

Equipment List

 

Ideas for Magazine

Ideas for poster

This is the initial idea for what we would like our soap opera poster to look like. As our trailer is including a photo shoot of the cast we would like our poster to include the posed photograph like the one shown at the end of the trailer. We want to have a connection between the trailer and the poster for advertisement so, potential viewers will know that they are linked. The characters will pose in a position that can show their storyline/personality and they will be pictured against a white background. We feel that a white background will give the poster a crisp and sophisticated feel which will reflect the theme of the soap. Also, we would like to include money falling over the characters to reinforce the high class and glamorous characters and show their wealth. We will include the title, tag line and information for the soap on the poster as well. We would like the font to be black and simple but big enough for the potential audience to see. Overall, we want to give our poster a glamorous feel.

Draft script

Draft script

Props

Props

When it came to filming we didn't use all of the props as first suggested. As we altered some of the characters, this lead to some of the props not being used, including the cigars. With the champagne we decided to go against this idea as we didn't feel that it would have fitted in with the studio and also, as we changed the age range of the characters we felt that this idea would have been more suited to the older ones. We also did not use the compact mirror and lipstick as we decided to not involve the girly girl character in the trailer. The Bachelor didn't end up wearing sunglasses, we felt that we wanted to actually show his character more in the trailer and the glasses may have hidden this. As he was involved in the main story line, this was another reason why we wanted to reveal the whole character to make sure that it was clear to the audience. The rest of the props suggested were used and worked well within our piece.

Emails For Music

We sent emails to Fergie and Pixie Lott to request permission to use one of there songs in our soap opera trailer, this is what we said:

To Fergie

Dear Sir/Madam.

I am writing to seek permission to use the record 'Glamorous' by Fergie for our A Level Media Exam. We have been asked to produce a new soap trailer and we believe this song would be perfect for ours, our soap is about young people with a glamorous lifestyle. We want to use this song but we will not be making any money from it, it will only be seen by a handful of people as it will be on youtube privately. We thank you for your time and hope you take our enquiry into consideration, many thanks.

To Pixie Lott
Dear Sir/Madam
We are writing to enquire permission to use the song 'It's all about tonight'
by Pixie Lott. We are media studies A level students who are currently
working on creating a new soap opera trailer for our
coursework. As we are focusing on making it a new
vibrant and youthful soap and feel as though this song would
be perfect for the trailer. We will be uploading it to
Youtube but will not be making any profits from this trailer. Only a handful of people will have access to our trailer
as we will only be using it to count towards our A level
grade.  Many Thanks

We decided to email different record companies to broaden our choice when it came to selecting music for our trailer. As we were not using the music for profits we felt it could potentially be a good idea if we received the permission we required. We had a particular style of music in mind for our trailer and to do this we knew we had to at least try to get in contact with the companies as we wanted the right kind of music to overall improve the trailer.