Evaluation - Question One

Evaluation of final product:
FRESHERS

ADVANCED PRODUCTION
Sophie Paige Griffiths
Aquinas College
Candidate Number: 3338
(With Josh Palmer, Sam Grimshaw, Harriett Couzens, Monica Mistry and Shadia Mokdad)

Planning and Final Pieces:
www.AQ091131.blogspot.com
I used “Blogger” to create a
BlogSpot Blog to upload all
of my planning for the final
production of my final
pieces; I have also uploaded
my final pieces to my blog as
well as my planning and
research.

My final pieces in the Blog
consist of my Trailer, My two
ancillary products which are;
a Magazine Front Cover and
Poster.

Key to Evaluation Question answers:
If a question runs over to other slides there will be one of the
Q1 following 4 symbols in the left hand side of the corner in order to
indicate which question it is that I am talking about.

Q2

Q3

Q4

Question 1 – How does your
product use, develop and
challenge conventions of real
media texts?

Q1
Soap Forms and Conventions:
When creating my trailer for my Soap Opera:
Freshers, It was important that I understood the
conventions and codes and how they work.
In order for myself to understand the Soap Forms
and Conventions; Soap Operas must be evaluated.
The next slides ahead will show some of these
Soap Forms and Conventions, also how I have
used them in my own Soap Opera Trailer
(Freshers).

Importance of realism through out
Q1 the soap/trailer: Story lines which Soap’s usually run all Recognisable popular
reflect REAL issues for REAL people year round: “soundtracks/songs” - In
Little makeup on female such as: Drugs, struggling sexuality, Continuous story line order for the audience to
characters to create run away teens etc – Enables the relate to the soap through
– Never ending.
realism to the audience audience to RELATE to the soap the music. – Mainly non-
that these are real people. from its realism. diegetic sound being using
through out.

CONFLICT – between
characters displayed
through body
movements and facial
expressions
Soap Opera Forms and
Conventions MISE EN SCENE –
Costumes used to
Big Close Up of one of reflect characters
the main characters in identity and
order to show his personality.
feelings through his
emotion in his face so Camera work:
that the audience is PARRALLEL close up
aware of what is NARRARTIVES – establishing shots,
happening with out any Usually represent a
Multiple story lines eye line, pull focus,
sound. region for example
displaying at the over the shoulder
Coronation Street
same time in order shots, pan shot,
represents the North
to link to each other Big close up,
West of England.
and also keep the Medium close up.
audience hooked.

Q1 Evaluating an existing Soap Opera:
“Hollyoaks”
Episode researched from 4OD: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/hollyoaks/4od

Over the shoulder shot:
creates a third person
perspective to the
audience. Creates a certain
Mise en scene: With regards to feeling for the audience
costume and props in this shot it is that they’re actually there
clear that the male character has and are experiencing the
been in a scrap or fight from the drama within the soap
cut being show on his face; the that is occurring.
camera has purposely taken this
shot from the left hand side over
the females shoulder in order to Shot reverse shot – of the two
make the audience aware of the characters having an important
male characters possible bad conversation. Over the shoulder shot
behaviour; this releases a small part used twice on each of the characters.
of the characters personality Higher angle used in this shot in
through the costumer – Makeup. order to show that the male
character is in-control of the female
character – camera work makes her
look smaller and him bigger therefore
making her look less in control which
makes the audience/viewers aware
from the camera work.

“Hollyoaks”
Sound: Female character begins the scene with “So why don’t you
tell me what it was like in prison” – Starts the scene with the
audience understanding with what is going on from the female
characters dialogue; She is now in-control as she is asking the
male character the questions.
Mise En Scene: The scene is
set in a home environment
(dining table) – However it
has been made to look like an
interview room of a police
station. From the way the two
characters are sat opposite
each other and the female
character is playing the role
of the “police officer” from
her notepad and pen in her
hand asking questions
however in reality it is just
her asking questions to the
male character about his time
in prison. Camera: The camera is being shot from a very high angle; this
enables the viewers to be able to see everything that is going on
Lighting: The lighting in this shot is
in this scene, including all of the props (food and drink) and also
dull however the spot light is
both characters that are in the shot. The main advantage of this
lightening up the centre of the table
is that it enables the audience to see both emotions on both
in between both characters.
characters faces through out their conversation.

“Hollyoaks”
Mise En Scene: Costume – School Uniform showing immediately
that the character is a “teenaged girl” and possibly giving the
audience a thought that she should be in School? This is also given
away from the fact it is day-time from the lightening and also that
she is in a school uniform. The tinsel also in the back ground of
this shot there is also a man walking round in a “Santa's outfit”
which is another form of costume, there is also tinsel in the
background over the left hand shoulder of the girl. This is a symbol
that it is Christmas time and creates a sense of realism for the
audience as it is a relatable time of year for the viewers and makes
them feel as if they are celebrating Christmas with the characters.

The two characters closest in this shot have made the
viewers more interested into what they have to say and
also into what they are going to do; this is forced by
bringing the two important characters closer to the
camera. The shot of the 3 characters in the back ground
makes them look less-important in this shot as they are
further away from the camera.
The costume within this shot is kept
realistically casual and normal day
to day in order to create a sense
of realism towards the audience

Question 1 – How does your product use, develop and
Q1
challenge conventions of real media texts?
• How did you combine camerawork, editing, sound and mise en scene to create meaning and genre?

Differences: Similarities:
• In the Fresher’s shot there is lighting from the sun • Medium Close Up used in both shots in order to display
glowing on the left hand side of the characters face the characters emotion and to get this across to the
(Monica). However in the Hollyoaks shot it is a lot duller. audience – This creates meaning towards the audience as
they are now aware of the characters emotion.
• Both over the shoulder shots showing that there is two
people in the shot however getting the person facing the
cameras point across of what they are trying to say
• As regards to Mise En Scene; Both shots have a brick wall
in the background of the shot; This makes the audience
aware that the shot is in an open environment; Outside.

Q1
• How did you combine camerawork, editing, sound and mise en scene to create meaning and genre?

Similarities: Differences:
• Camera Angles – In the Hollyoaks shot the angle of the camera if more to the
• Mise En Scene – Both scenes in both soaps are situated left hand side which is getting more of the characters bodies into the shot and
in the same environment which is a home; this is made allows the viewer to understand that the characters are in a comfortable chilled
clear for the viewer to understand from the way all the out environment at home, where as in the fresher’s shot it is a closer up shot
characters are comfortably sat on the sofa’s. and is more focused on the conversation between the two characters.

• Props – There are no props displayed in the shot of Fresher’s where as in
Hollyoaks there are “girly” items such as nail varnish. This shows the audience
that the shot in Fresher’s must be more serious from the facial expressions and
lack of props.

Q1 Question 1 – How does your product use, develop and challenge
conventions of real media texts?
• Does the editing connote the emotions shown in the trailer?
I zoomed in on the shot below so that it went from a
Medium Close Up to a Big Close Up, this is so that
my characters emotions come across through his
facial expressions from my editing. I feel this is
effective as I can relate as a viewer to how he is
feeling simply from the face that He is pulling.

Pan Shot used of female
character walking away
and left with blank
expression of the male
character, I have then
extended this shot so
that It shows his facial
expression for an extra
few seconds in order for
Big Close Up of a Hollyoaks character it to become relatable
shows her emotions clearer enabling and emotional towards
the audience to relate to her issues the viewer.
without any sound/speech needed; all
from editing and camera close-ups.

Q1 challenge conventions of real media texts?
•what messages do your costumes and locations send to the audience about the class and status of the characters?

COSTUME/PROPS: - For one of our
main story lines within Fresher’s
which was with our character JP
struggling with his sexuality in
Fresher’s. In order to increase our
audience’s expectations we focused a
lot on the costume and props of
making up his character and building
up the viewers thoughts and hopes
as to how his character is going to From looking at the locations and
perform. For example; with regards costumers in both scenes; Hollyoaks and
to costume we dresses him in Geek Fresher’s; It has become clear that both
Glasses, one ear ring, tucked in polo Soap Opera’s represent a similar class
top with tight light jeans. We did all which I would say is Middle class from the
of this to create JP’s character and to clothing they have dressed both characters
make it obvious to the audience from in which are similar and also day-to-day
looking at him that he has struggled casual.
with regards to his sexuality on the
programme. A Soap Opera that is similar to Fresher’s is
Hollyoaks; Hollyoaks have shared a similar
story line as with the issue of struggling
with sexuality. Jasmine their female
character also struggling with her
gender/sexuality – They have dressed her
quite “butch” and in male clothing in
order for the viewers to get across that
she is struggling with her
gender/sexuality.

Q1 Question 1 – How does your product use, develop and
• do the lighting, props, locations and costume reinforce audience expectations about your programme
Costume: Costume in our Fresher’s
trailer was important for the drug story
line; in order to get across to the
viewer/audience what the character
personality and identity is – Sam/
Grimmers – With his cap covering his
face and also big black coat and dull
clothing: we made Sam become into his
characters role which is being a “drug
dealer”. The costume for Sam's character
has highbred the viewers expectations of
how he is going to act as he has become
Location: In this shot of the trailer in Fresher’s; the location into his role from the costume of
was fairly crucial as it was the “drug story” scene we needed becoming a “drug dealer”.
to find somewhere appropriate for the scene as it had to be Lighting: The lighting on the shot of Sam and Monica is light, as we were filmed
out-doors as it is un-popular for drug dealing/talking to be this scene in the day-time. This scene would have been improved if it was
done in-doors. We chose an alley-way for the location of this filmed in darkness as it enables Sam’s character to come out as evil as he can
scene. This increases the audience expectations as it is true be and the lighting can also reflect his evil side; for example if we filmed this
to say that anything could happen in an alley-way and it is scene in darkness it would have been more
popularly known that there has been crime in alley-ways Affective for the audience’s expectations
therefore it puts the audience on “edge” as to what is going As they would have possibly expected
to happen next in this alley way scene. Something more “dangerous” to occur.
Props: The main prop used in this Scene was the actual “pretend
drugs” – the drugs have been made out to look “real” to the
audience; from being placed into a packet which is what drugs are
usually passed onto into. We used constipation tablets in order to
create the full affect of the “drug scene” – this gives the audience
higher expectations as to what drama is to come from the use of
creativity with props.

• do the lighting, props, locations and costume reinforce audience expectations about your programme

Differences: Similarities:
• The camera angles are both different:- in Fresher's • The brick wall has been used in both scenes and is
we are framing the two characters against the wall. affective
• The male character looks as if he is walking where • Both scenes have Mise En Scene consisting of trees,
as in Fresher’s they aren't. plants – Showing the audience that they are in outdoors
• one character in the Hollyoaks shot where as two environment and out of their comfort zones at home
characters in Fresher's also they’re having a • Costume – Both male characters in Fresher’s and
conversation. Hollyoaks are wearing jackets
• Both filmed in day time – lighting is similar and not filmed
in the night/evening.

Evaluating an existing E4 trailer:
SKINS series 1 trailer: “SKINS”
Song Used: The Gossip – Standing In the way of control
This trailer is a few years old however at the
time of this trailer being released the song
was new and a “party” song therefore it built
up the audience in a positive nature as they
didn't know what to expect from the Series.

The song is particularly
effective at this stage in the
trailer after all of the chaos
arises it goes silent and there
is a BCU of this character
being the only “chilled out”
one.

The beat of my song
As here is no diegetic
sound at the opening “Earthquake” particularly
of my trailer it is only drops on this shot from the way
non-diegetic it opens I have purposely edited it: this
well with this “evil”
is effective for the viewer as
shot of Grimmers /Sam
looking moody which is this is when Hal’s sister
effective with the song discovers she has left home
“Earthquake” as the and ran away therefore the
end of the beat finishes music enables the viewer to
when Sam's eyes open. feel the shock of the character
from the beat in the track,
I feel that it worked
exceptionally well through
out the trailer, However my
main appeal to this song
was the actual music and
beat to the song rather than
the actual song lyrics. I
particularly enjoyed the first
part of the song before the
lyrics enter the song.
Therefore I experimented
on "Garage Band" and
decided to repeat the first
part of the song before the
lyrics come in and repeat
that music throughout the
90 seconds of the trailer.


CREATING THE CHARACTERS
Our characters are University students therefore we wanted to create as

realistic names as possible; it was important to myself and my group to
create names which delivered a “normal student life style”
overall we decided as we are all students we decided to use OUR OWN names
however shorten them to “Nick Names” –
Our main reason for wanting to use NICKNAMES for our
characters names when creating them was because when researching other
similar E4 programmes such as Hollyoaks and Skins they used “Normal
names” however shortened them; for example – in Skins one of their
characters names was “Jay-Jay” this inspired us with one of our people in
the group having the name Joshua Palmer we thought that it would be
Unique and REALISTIC to give him the character name of JP. This
worked well through out the planning and creation of our final products.


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Characters of FRESHERS:
Monica/ Mon - Sams Girlfriend:
Sam/Grimmers - The Drug Dealer:

Sam’s personality is moody
and can get angry when he
doesn't get what he wants. His
girlfriend is Monica in the
show (Fresher’s). Sam Monica is Sam's drug dealer girlfriend, she is
attempts to force Monica on frightened of Sam as he constantly forces
drugs quite a lot which has drug's onto her in order to "have fun"
caused a lot of conflict on their together. Sam is forceful onto Monica and she
relationship with him forcing is known to be the vulnerable one in the
her and also his drug taking. relationship


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Sophie/Sophs - JP's Best Friend
Josh/ JP - The Gay

JP is best friends with Sophie one
of the girls in the group of people
in Fresher's, he has been
struggling with his sexuality for a Soph's is JP's best friend and has been for many years,
while and has previously had she has always been around to give JP advise with
girlfriends. Within the trailer of girls and any other issues which have affected him,
Fresher's it comes out that JP is she has always been a big part of his life and is aware
gay and has been dating boys for a of everything going on in JP's life with being his best
while, the shock hits Sophie quite friend. Within my trailer there is a deep shock for
a lot and therefore creates conflict Soph as she finds out that JP has been dating "guys
between their friendship as she for a while" which creates conflict in her friendship
with JP as she has been lied to by her best friend.
feels betrayed.


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Harriett/Hal - The Runaway Teen Shadia/Shad - Hal's Sister

Hal has been struggling with
family problems at home for a
long time and also arguments
with her sister and issues within
home-life have made things
unbearable for her to cope, Hal is Shad is Hal's concerned sister in Fresher’s, she has
in the movement of moving out also been struggling with family problems as well as
of her family home and running Hal. However Hal is Shad's only sibling therefore she
away by leaving a letter for her is concerned about Hal leaving the house and
Sister to find whilst she has leaving Shad on her own, this is effecting her quite a
packed her bags and left for lot and she isn’t to sure what to do.
good.

LOCATION 1: THE ALLEY WAY

Monica has her
back to brick
wall: represents
a lack of escape GRUNGEY
for her as if she COLOURS: The
walks backwards lower the alley
she will go into gets the more
the wall. gruesome and
scary it looks –
dark grey colours,
greys and
browns.

FRAMING used between the two characters - This increases the audience
expectations as it is true to say that anything could happen in an alley-way and
it is popularly known that there has been crime in alley-ways therefore it puts
the audience on “edge” as to what is going to happen next in this alley way
scene.


LOCATION 2: THE TRAIN STATION

Obvious for the
viewer that it is a
train station from
the character
stood on the
platform and also
the “train” coming
in on the rail.

DULL atmosphere: could represent the
characters negative feelings; dull trees and
cobbles on the train rail

CAMERA
ANGLES: This
LOCATION 3: THE LIVING ROOM shot has been
taken right in-
front of both
The neutral characters, this
colours of the makes the
wall colour: viewer/audien
could ce feel apart of
represent a the scene.
university
commons
room or even
a house that
they have in
their second
year; shared
lounge area.

COLOUR CONTRAST:
Contrasting colours between the plain coloured wall paper and chocolate
coloured SOFA: Darker colour of sofa that they are sitting on can easily
represent an argument between the two characters: this is also
represented by the way they are sat – No eye connection, not looking at
each other.

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