Our Magazine Layout Ideas

This is the magazine layout that we have made to give us a rough idea of the colours and design that we want for our final magazine cover. This layout follows the convention for a soap opera magazine and therefore is the perfect layout for us to use.

This is another magazine layout that we have made and considered to use for our final magazine cover.

Jess Wilding

Second Draft Poster and Feedback

We have collected feedback form a number of people so that we have other peoples ideas to work from for our final poster.

Positives
- Really like the layout.
- Like the soap details they look really clear.
- The Details about the dates and times are really clear and to the point.

Negatives
- Dont really like the boarder as it is a bit plain.
- Should change the font of for the tagline as you can't really read it.
- Doesn't really look professional.
- The tagline needs to be made more clear.

Amy Welsh

First Draft Poster and Feedback

We have collected a variety of feedback in order to see what things we should keep for our second draft and what we should change to make it look better.

Positives
- Good characterisation in the main picture that you have used.
- The font is really nice - eye catching.
- The catchphrase is good.
- I like the theme of the poster with the picture been set in a bar and then the boarder being the wine bar.
- The way its set out gives an idea of what the programme is about.

Negatives
- There should be more colour used as it looks quite brown.
- Its overall dark.

Amy Welsh

Third Rough Cut and Feedback- New Footage

We decided to do a third rough cut before our final cut so that we could show our progress within the editing stage of the trailer. This also gave us more of a chance to look at the titles and the order of our footage within the trailer.

We have collected some feedback on our third rough cut so that any improvements can be made before completing our final cut. We have asked a variety of people and they have given us both positive and negative feedback.

Positive Feedback.

- The footage that you have really shows the characters personalities.
- You have a lot of footage so that audience have a lot to see.
- The trailer is a good length for a soap opera trailer.

Negative Feedback.
- There isn't any music on the trailer.
-You need to add footage where it says 'Lauren's footage'.
- Seems a bit muddled up, get confused what's happening without footage as well.
- Titles needed near the end of the trailer and font is boring at the end.

From this feedback we have found out that all of the footage that we have is really goo we just need to make sure that all of the content is in the right place and that certain parts are filled with extra footage. The people that we have asked to give us this feedback have said that it seems that we have a good plan for our trailer, we just need to add small parts to it which will make the trailer better overall.

Second Rough Cut and Feedback - New Footage

We have collected feedback in order to see what people think is good and what we could do during editing to make our piece look better when we finish our third rough cut.

Positives
- The music that you have used goes really well with what is going on in the piece.

Improvements
- In ceratin there are darker areas.

From this feedback we have found that most people think the footage that we have is quite dark at times this means that in our next rough cut we shall try and lighten our footage during editing to see if it then looks better. When we were filming we found it really hard to get high key lighting as pubs are known to be a dark location in order to create a homely and friendly atmosphere.

First Rough Cut and Feedback- New Footage

Feedback for our first rough cut
We showed our first rough cut of our new footage to a group of media students and we recieved positive feedback and improvements which we would need to consider when re-editing our piece.

This piece of feedback was given with regards to our first rough cut using the old footage.
Positive Feedback:

• Better continuity
• Meaning much more apparent
• Camera used more effectively

Improvements:

• Transition in the middle of the piece to be added in editing

The remaining feeback we recieved was given towards our first rough cut using the new footage (as seen above).

Positive Feedback:

• Ending works well
• Good variety of shots (such as the pool shot)
• Props are realistic and work with the setting
• Lively music matches the young characters and setting
• Lighting was considered well
• Clever idea for a soap opera trailer
• Good location and storyline
• Zoom was effective

Improvements:

• Beginning shot too long
• Did not show a lot about the characters
• No voiceovers or soap name - no soap trailer conventions
• Establishing exterior shot to show location
• Add more transistions
• Some of the scenes where extras talk could be shortened
• Storyline can be unclear
• Framing - some heads are cut out of the close up shots

From this feedback we recieved, we can see what we need to add and improve on for our second rough cut with the new footage.
The feedback given shows a positive improvement from our first piece of footage to the second but improvements are still needed.
When editing our second rough cut, we will be adding titles at the end of the piece to inform audiences of the time and channel in which our soap is on. We could also look at using an establishing shot at the beginning to show location which will enable us to follow generic trailer conventions.
Our initial idea was to look at introducing the characters one by one with their names and a bit about their personality so the audience can relate to them and have an idea of who they are so we can include this in our second rough cut when the characters line up towards the end.

Information on the soundtrack

As we did not want any lyrics to be heard in our trailer we decided to use a software called 'Cubase 4' this is a music editing software which enables us to use a sample and change this in whichever we wanted. Therefore, we decided to have a gradual build-up in our trailer by noting down the times that we would change them at and chopping the music so we could loop them to be repeated. We would then use different types of cross-fades and compressors in our samples to make it sound continuous. This is what our software looked like: