Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task

In our Preliminary Task we had to create a short trailer for soap. We decided to look at “Waterloo Road” and base our soap on this. We called our soap “Nangreave Road” and included college situations as we only had a short amount of time to shoot our footage. We created a script and storyline and then we chose where to film our various scenes. At first when we began shooting our footage we chose to have a scene outside of the canteen area where it was slightly quieter than in the canteen itself. When we had finished one of the scenes we played it back and noticed the camera hadn’t picked our voices up in comparison to the other voices outside. We then decided to change that particular scene so it was on a quiet staircase in the college so the camera wouldn’t pick up the other background noise. After playing back the first take of this scene we realised it didn’t look realistic enough so we then decided to add a few of our group members to walk up or down the stairs to make it look realistic enough to be shot in a college.

We made sure we had enough variety of shot types.

We also looked at the facial expressions used on previous soaps and made sure we exaggerated our facial expressions as much as soaps like 'Hollyoaks', 'Eastenders' and 'Coronation Street' so we could really get across to the audience the atmosphere of the situation.