Soap Opera Trailer Rough Cut

Soap Opera Poster Final

Soap Opera Poster Final

Soap Opera Magazine Cover Final

Soap Opera Magazine Cover Final

Soap Opera Magazine Draft 2

Emmaline Soap Opera Mag

FEEDBACK -

By showing my poster too my class mates I established a large amount of feedback for my poster. They felt it was good that we had used bright and bold colours as this conforms to typical Magazine Cover conventions. But I was advised to change the banner to something that conformed more to the typical style of a Magazine article such as just a block square. Magazine covers are always usually very busy and there are space that still needed to be filled with either pictures or bold sub-titles that drew the readers attention. As well as this the writing of 'Will Brad steal Jessica off of Patrick needed to be resized or re-written to fit in the space provided. The price of the magazine needed to be made clearer and to fit with conventions of a magazine article it would be a good idea to put a banner at the top of the page showing other storylines than the one featured or from other soaps. The name of the soap opera that the storyline was taken from and that was featured needed to be made more obvious to the audience or it would defeat the object of using the magazine cover as a marketing technique. I was praised for the 'Prime TV' star idea as my peers said it was eye catching and unique to specifically that magazine but the positioning needed to be adjusted so that it did not block any of the important images from the cover. I however do not need to add a date, bar code or issue number as that was similarly already done and positioned and sized accordingly to the article. The sub-title of 'BEST FRIENDS GIRL' made good use of punctuation which soap opera magazine often do for emphasis and is a typical code and convention. I will be sure to use my peers opinions and advice to better my magazine article in order to match criteria.

Soap Opera Poster Draft 2

Soap Opera Poster Draft 2

By my peers I was told I used the colours well to portray and dark and mysterious effect to the soap opera at the same time classy and the colours were contrasting between the images of 'Patrick' and 'Jessica' The placing of images worked effectively as 'Patrick' is looking down on 'Jessica' which is effective to storyline. It also shows a polaroid which represents a moment in time where 'Brad' shown, the polaroid is placed in the middle connoting Brad is getting in the middle of Patrick and Jessica s relationship. I was given feedback to use more than one polaroid showing different moments in the storyline as it would fill up space on the poster and not leave wide gaps where nothing happened. The writing was effective and by using white text on a black background it contrasted and was easy to read, the 'week nights 7 on channel 4' were using a type writer which I found effective as it connoted a newspaper which is informative which is idea behind the poster. 'Façade Manor' i used elaborative writing to represent the 'elaborateness' of the characters in Façade manor.

Soap Opera Poster Draft

We decided our poster should be simple and straight to the point of what it is designed to be advertising. However it should not be as obvious as a magazine cover and simply hint at the storylines in order to attract the viewer and be curious. The only text will be 'NOBODY KNOWS WHAT GOES ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS" which does not give away the storylines however does hint that all is not what it seems in this soap opera. This represents the hidden lives of all the characters in the soap. In the bottom right corner we should have written the soap name 'Fascade Manor' so that the viewer is immeadietly aware of what soap it is the posters advertising. We will use quite a dark smokey affect on the poster that will connote the mystery of the storylines. These will seperate photos of the long-mid shot of Rochella and Victor. Rochella looking smug with herself and the photo of Emma-Louise close up looking distraught crying with mascara down her face as a back-ground image. These combined contrast of emotions create curiousity in the storyline and is designed to draw attention to the soap opera.

The poster will use sterotypical colours and will use alot of black which has connotations of darkness and creates drama and tension. The bottom left of the poster the image will dennote brighter colours such as greens and blue's. This will contrast the rest of the black there for signifiying the 'fascade' we wish our soap opera to portray. The bottom left background image will be the 3 characters involved in the storyline being advertised standing hands on hip. Their facial expressions will connote the issues their characters are facing there for reflecting the drama. For the key image we used the idea of verisimilatude as the characters images are of Jessica and Brad in a natural position. This will create a more realistic feel to the soap and make it easier for the audience to identify with. The image will be a close up of Brad attempting to kiss Jessica which is the disruption in the plot that causes the tension in the storyline orgininally so is important to advertise. The heading 'nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors' is designed to be catchy and create curiousity. Strongly indicating that there are secrets in the plot of 'Fascade Manor'. The 'Fascade Manor' logo will be large and bold in the bottom right of the poster to make it clear to any potential audience which soap opera it is that is intruging them. The top right in smaller but still bold and bright writing the times and dates the soap opera is being shown will be written as it is similarly important to ensure viewers.

Soap Opera Poster Rough Draft

My plan was simpleThe title of the magazine will be bold in the corner still however other soap operas are not featured at all on the cover. The sub-text will be bold 'SECRET SON' in capital letters being immeadietly eye catching and drawing to the reader this will similarly connotes the drama of the storyline. 'SHOCK' in the bottom right of the corner is designed to give a similar affect. There will be to images on either side of the sub-heading banner. One of the Jarvis couple with which the storyline will be based around and another back ground image of their potential son. This could be improved by prehaps using more of the grammer to create curiousity and the drama desired. Smaller sub-headings would have been more affective to advertise the storyline. The colours again would be a common theme such as yellow, white, black and red to stick with generic codes and convetios. They are all colours that are bright and eye catching and also contrast each other in order to stand out.