First day of filming

On our first day of filming my group started filming a feature video that is going to be put onto our website, the video is the opening of the first episode of our soap.
As we had already pre discussed and planned what we were going to be doing on our fist day my group had a clear idea of the key shots, frames, sound etc needed for filming.
Thegla took on the role of the lead (Andrea) in the video so the rest of the groups shared the roles of sound, filming, mise-en-scene, continuity etc
Whilst filming we experimented with a variety of different shots and angles so that when it came to editing the footage we have a varity of shots to choose from.

We also filmed other footage that is going to feature on our website; cast interviews. Natalie M took on the role of the interviwer and Elena, Thegla and I were the 'cast' being interviewed. Whilst we are going to be featuring interviws of the cast, we also wanted to feature episode pictures in our coursework, we will display this on our website and also as the frontcover of our soap magazine and also feature images inside the magazine.

Here are some pictures that we took on our day of filming:

preperation for the first day of filming

Before my group started our first day of filming we wanted to know exactly what we were doing on the day, so that no time was wasted .

To do so we planned each scene out including framing, characters, music, mise-en-scene and also any special effects needed such as fades, dissolves or cuts.

We did this for both our trailer and first episode. This also allowed us time to think about locations and complete preperations such as recce forms so that filming was safe and final to go ahead.

Written Storyboard for Episode 1

My group have drawn our storyboard for part of our first episode (names of characters still to be decided). It will go as follows:

Scene 1
• Girl 1 in kitchen eating breakfast.She gets a text saying'Are you in today?'

• Her mum appears in the doorway saying 'hurry up or you are going to be late'
• Girl 1 walks out and slams the front door whilst her mum is still talking
• Girl 1 walking down the road
Scene 2
• Girlfriend and boyfriend walking down the street together talking
• close up of the girlfriend looking uneasy whilst the boyfriend is still talking to her
• close up of the boyfriend looking down at his girlfriend with a smile on his face
Scene 3
• Boy 1 cooking his breakfast, his phone rings
• He talks on the phone saying 'yeah I'm going to be late again'
Scene 4
• Girl 1 smoking in the street
• A group of girls walk past her, they say hi, one asks girl 1 for a cigarette
• She passes her one
• Girls say thanks and walk on
• Close up of girl 1 smiling

Written Storyboard for Trailer

My group have drawn up our storyboard for our trailer (names of characters still to be decided).
We decided we wanted our trailer to be unconventional using the recent Eastenders trailer with Peggy and Archies wedding and Hollyoaks trailers as inspiration. It will go as follows:
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• Close up of girl 1 crying with make up running down her face
• She closes her eyes to a heartbeat sound
• Close up of the first note on the floor 'We'
• Scene fades to letters coming through the letter box
• The note with 'We' falls out from in between the letters.
• Close up of girl 1 with her hands on her head. she closes her eyes to a heartbeat
• Close up of the second note on the floor 'Know'
• Girl 1 sitting in a cafe
• A waitress brings her a drink and hands her a note from someone
• Girl 1 reads the note but audience do not see it.
• She looks around in the hope of seeing who it is from but the cafe is empty
• Close up of her hands covering more of her face and the sound of her whimpering
• Close up of the third note on the floor 'What'
• When girl 1 gets home from the cafe she looks in her bag and sees the third note
• Close up of the girls face, tears rolling down
• Close up of the 4th note on the floor 'You'
• Girl 1 sitting on her floor doing homework, as she lifts up a folder, the fourth note falls out from it.
• Close up of the girl crying
• Fifth note on the floor 'Did'
• Girl 1 in supermarket she gets her purse out to pay and the 5th note falls from it.
• Girl in her bedroom putting the notes together
'WE KNOW WHAT YOU DID'
• The tempo/pace of the music increases as she puts the notes in order one by one. the music stops as they are put in order and a cardiac arrest beep comes on.
• The scene flashes to a dead body
• I.V appears on screen with the days and time the soap is on - 'Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 8pm
• Final sound of a heart beat then silence as the trailer ends.

planning and ideas of photos for the soap magazine cover

Before my group met up to photograph images for the front cover of our soap opera magazine we had a group meeting to outline and plan our ideas , so that on the day we had no trouble knowing what we had to do. Our ideas were:

• our main character to be the in the center of the image. Her expression to be concerned/scared. She will be wearing black to symbolise sadness and danger .
• Behind our main character we are going to have teh suspect, who will be dressed in red to symbolise danger, mischief....
• Also in the background of the image we are going to have the victim. This character will be dressed in white to symbolise innocence.