Meeting In Common Room

8:40: Discussion about the different ideas that we wanted to get in our trailer, Prince suggested the bixsexual storylines, Barbara talked about the girl with a serious brain tumour, I mentioned about the wedding racism story and how it may be difficult to find the location

9:00: We walked around school and looked at different locations that we may be able to use, issues such as managing to create the look of a church in the hall or outside it questionable.

9:30: Barbara raised the issue that it may be hard to film in a church so we did agree on school and decorating hopefully in the half term.

9:45: We discussed what sort of storylines we wanted in our trailer and why we chose those specific ones, I think our main focus was based on Hollyoaks because it recently has had extremely dramatic storylines such as Ravi finding out he had a tumour and keeping it a secret from his family, this was good for us as we also wanted to do the same in our soap, but getting the same sort of suffering from a female character.

10:30: Researched more soaps, Barbara looked into Home & Away, Prince looked into "Eastenders" and I looked into "Hollyoaks. (See individual blogs)
Discussed any framing shots or camera angles that we could use in trailer so perhaps like Hollyoaks, when Carmel lookes into a picture and the camera zooms out of the same picture but to a completely different location and a different storyline, this was an effective switch perhaps indicating the contrast between them.

10:55: Agreed on what we briefly wanted, so the start being more effective, getting straight into a racist marriage and ending in a cliffhanger or the girl nearly being knocked over by a car. Setting the audiences many questions such as Who is the girl? Why is she running away? Who are the married couple? What is going on.


Meeting Finished


Yana