Preperation For Filming Our Advert

My partner Hannah Clark and I have come to the conclusion on what is going to be happening in our trailer. We have decided on the Costume, Location and Music. We planned on filming on the 25th of March as that fit in with our work schedules and school schedule, but unfortunately it didn't happen due to finding people to record. We decided on using our friends Charlotte Gatton, Vanessa Lane and Melissa Penney, but the filming couldn't happen when we needed it to so we ended up just using Hannah's sisters which are Gemma and Amy Clark.

Location.As we decided to keep our trailer linked to social realism, we decided to film our trailer at one household so it wouldn't confuse our audience filming in all different places. We also wanted to make it so families can relate to our problems, that's the reason why we wanted to keep it in a home envirnonment. In each scene, it will show a different problem occuring in a different location of the house. Therefore, it wouldn't bore the audience and it would make the trailer a lot more interesting.

Mise-En-Scene.As Soap Operas show social realism, we have made sure that the mise-en-scene represents this. The way we achieved this was by keeping the clothing very simple and casual. We decided we wanted to base our clothing on the usual casual everyday wear which is jeans, a plain top and just a normal shoe whether its trainers or small dolly shoes. This was mainly only shown in the scene where Gemma is escaping from her house. In other scenes for example the 'mistakes' scene, we decided to dress Amy in her nightwear due to her being stressed and giving the impression that she is really hurting about that mistake she has done, therefore, she wouldn't be caring about her appearance. In the scene 'Death', we wanted to represent someone from the younger generation going through a struggle of losing someone, so the mise-en-scene we wanted to portray would be Amy in her school uniform. By creating the mise-en-scene this way, we thought we would really show the emotions of the characters and our audience can relate to how they are feeling.

Music.For our trailer, we wanted it to be a big tease to our audience so we decided to only use a soundtrack and not any real life action with people speaking. We thought by doing this, it would create suspicion to our audience and would be a good way for them to persuade them into watching our 'Soap Opera'. It was hard to find a soundtrack as we wanted it to be instrumental, but in the end we found a suitable soundtrack which we thought would be appropriate for our trailer. We found 'Radioactive (137 bpm instrumental version)'. We didn't want to add any major or a popular soundtrack in the background of our trailer as we didn't want to take any attention away from the video itself. This is why we have chosen to keep a steady beat throughout.