My Initial Proposal

My Initial Proposal

1st SceneRacial Marriage
Prince dressed in a tux, background {in school} but we can decorate the way, near the D.T rooms outside, making sure the weathers good and there isn't much wind that was the mistake from last time, I'll be wearing a "wedding dress" and led up the what seems like an aisle by MR mosedale {my father}, we will have to ask a few 6th formers to sit in the background as if they are family. Barbara, dressed formally but we have to make sure we make her up to look much older. We will have to include slow wedding like music to create the feel of a very calm happy atmosphere It is also vital for the characters to smile to lighten the mood and create the feel of happiness in the air.

The scene should consist of a few shots and be left in a very melodramatic state, so Once i walk the aisle there are a few medium shots and a long shot from Princes view on me walking towards him, we can then have a close up shot of Barbara putting her hand on her head as in despair.Everything should go normal speed at first until I reach the "altar".

Then the twist of events will begin. There will be a shot of Barbaras hand grabbing Prince's should and pulling him back, his shocked reaction and then a quick shot of my face, eyes welling up in tears.
A long shot of the whole situation and Prince being dragged into a separate room.There speech will take place. At thing point once the drama beings, the music changes completely, it beings to become more dramatic . Barbara and Prince shoulder shots of conversation. Barbara extremely angry and agitated "Why did I do you make you like this? Prince: "It is a crime to marry someone I'm in love with", Barbara "It is if she's white, are you intentionally trying to disgrace this family because i wont let you, your father would have been so disappointed in you" Prince left as his mother walks out on his wedding. Close up of him observing the ring, sad expression.

My close up of sitting on the altar my father {mosedale} with his hand on my shoulder, a guest in the background accidental knocks over the wedding plate it cracks. make sure that we film how it cracks make it slow motion to create a more effective "sudden" effect.

Scene 2Camera zooms out of a plate to an Asian family dinner, need to include props such as curry, rice, plates of Indian food, decorate the place with more cultural objects. Circle the "normal conversation about school> so the shot will be circling the table while they talk till it stops on one young teenage girl. A shot of her taking the phone out of her pocket, and reading it.

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Scene 3: School toilets, a suspicious looking girl running in locking herself in, music is calm yet building up to something dramatic, she takes out a folded paper from her pocket, and slowly unfolds it, music starts building up, text of her brain disorder a positive.>camera focuses on her facial reaction. Tears well up and she screams.

Scene 4

Runs out of the school onto the road, crying cannot see, music is up beat creating panic, she falls over the border right in front of a car.Blank screen, car screeches.
"bang"

The soap name

coming soon or have a different wording something catchy and rememberable.

Initial Proposal ( Barbara's Copy)

Opening Shots:

The audiences would be introduced to a marriage scene whereby Prince and Yana are getting married; here, I would like to us to use fast camera movement as well as the sound ( non-diagetic) it would help build the tension just as we want it. I strongly think that the technique of speeding the pace of camera shots would increase the focus of the audience.

Scene A

1st shots: long shot from one corner of the room, alongside slow non-diagetic music; after a few seconds we get quick/fast shot zooming into the faces of Yana, Prince, Mr. Mosedale, The Priest , Me and the ring. I think this would make it a significant point as it would be recommending the audiences to focus on these faces and object as it would be the main focus (stars) of the soap.

2nd shots: close up on me looking furious, reaching out to Prince's shoulder. I then drag him to a seperate room( here there would be a dialogue). Prince would also not be very happy with my interuption of the wedding. There should also be a mid shot of Prince expressing his feeling towards Yana. But on the other hand, I would be still a furious as ever trying to convince him not to grt married to Yana. The camera shot move in awkward ways a in switching from my face to Prince's. This could be interpreted in various ways; it would add to the fact that there is a misunderstanding. And the camera moving awkwardly would add effects to it and would the audiences involved more. Just at the end of this shot, i think it would be useful if we could have a close up of Prince breaking down followed by a long shot of him exiting the room.

3rd shot: in the other room where the wedding was meant to take place, we should have shot of Yana playing with the ring then a shot where we could have Mr. Mosedale( Yana's Dad) moving towards her and trying to comfort Yana.(a dialogue here) Then a close up of Yana's face then gradually pans into her eyes. The whole movement of the camera on Yana's face keeps the viewers aware of her pain/embarrassment

After a few moments, we hear a sound of a plate cracking then the camera quickly moves to the crack of the plate; this could also be signifying that their planned marriage has turned into failure or in other words was not meant to be.

End of Scene A: We find a way where we could use the camera to put the plate together. I strongly thimk that using this sort of technique is extreamly important and significant as the next scene will be a happy family having lunch. This could be identified as some sort of justaposing.

Scene B: Introduction to the Asian family and Traumatised Girl

In this scene, we will be featuring an asian family sitting round a table having a fairly peaceful lunch. This family would be having a family bonding/discussion moment when all od a sudden, their daughter recieves a text which is blank. This text automatically changes the facial expression of this young girl as questions are being raised in her head. We then have a close up of the text then slowlt pans out to the girls face imforming the audiences of her feelings which is being communicated via her facial expression. Furthermore, this is however likely to keep the audiences wanting to know more and keeping them hooked to the soap as they would like to know what is happening.


Attached Shot to this scene: Introduction to the girl who gets run over by the van.

A girl walking up the road with music in her ears, dancing and then all of a sudden tumbles over and end up lying in the road. W e then have a long shot of the van in a distance then quickly pans inside the driver's seat, close up of the driver being distructeed by a text. As the driver is driving at full speed he doesn't realise that someone is on the floor. We then have quick close ups of the girl, then the tyres and then the reaction of the driver's face. There should be no sound at this moment apart from the screeching tyres.

Final shot in scene B: A mid shot of the girls head very close to the tyres, this would make it very dramatic as it covers the conventions of realism. (A couple of seconds intervals between this and the blackout)
After,there would be a blackout.

Here, questions would tend to rise in the head of audiences as it is not very clearly communicated if the girl was run over or not.

Closing Scene: A letter from the NHS has been sent to the asian family regarding their daughter, from this letter, it is informing them that she has been diagnosed with brain tumour. The girl does not get that chance to open the letter as her mum recieves the letter.
The woman then had to break this news to her daughter and found this very difficult. This scene create an intense atmosphere at a broad range of feelings are brought out.
The scene then ends with the woman finally about to break the news but does not quite do it.
This is bound make the audience want more and keep them entertained.

Prince's Initial Proposal

First scene...

((The establishing shot:

Long shot, camera panning down from the skies for 3 seconds and pans right following a character walking/entering the location where the wedding is going to take place (church)

Slow calming music will be playing and the camera will be following the character from a long shot and slowly getting closer to the character.

I'd like this character to walk up to the front of the reception or registry office. The camera will be following this character until he or she turns to sit down and the camera keeps steadily going forward and it focuses on me and Yana about to say our vows.))

The first scene Marriage

A long shot showing Prince and Yana in a distance and from this camera shot we can also the heads of the characters sitting down. This duration of this scene is approximately 15-25 seconds.

As the characters who are getting married begin talking the camera gets closer to the main characters focused in this scene, I'd like this scene to have an UN obvious twist in terms of the sequence of the camera shots. For example I'd like to show the audience a CU camera shot of Prince followed by a CU camera shot of the mother and lastly a a CU Camera shot of Yana, the point of this sequence is to show the conflict between the characters through their facial expressions.

In this scene i think it would be useful to show other facial expressions from the extras on the scene this will increase the realism of the dramatic sense that we are trying to bring from this scene. We want this scene build tension though the performance of the characters and also i think adding tensional music would also increase our chances of receiving what we want from this particular scene.

The main character who the audience are more likely to feel sympathy for is Prince because he is stuck in between two people who are very different but they both share a huge part in his life.

(His mother and his soon to be wife))

This scene will end in a very symbolical way as the audience is going to be shown a place smashing and the camera shot is going to be reversed and we see the plate back unbroken and it leads to the second scene.

((From the plate smashing we are trying to portray the fact that the marriage is going to be broken.))

Scene two

In this scene we going to make the audience have different emotional responses, although the idea is moving far away from being dramatic in this scene our focus and aim is to show depression and misunderstanding.

An Asian family sitting around a table having dinner (Approx 3 characters Mum, Dad, daughter)

the daughter will receive an empty text (close up shot of her facial expression and also the audience will be able to see the empty text.

This scene might get the audience slightly off their seats. As a group this scene will not be our main focus although our aim in this scene is to build tension but not giving the audience all they want to know...

We feel that using Asian music would be very suitable for this scene as the characters in the scene are from an Asian background.

Scene 3

This is one of my favourite scenes because as a group we are going to show something very dramatic... we are going to have a long shot of a girl walking and she falls/tumbles on the kerb and as she drops half of her body lays on the road and in a distance we can see a van being driven at a very fast speed.

i think leaving this scene without music will be very useful for the audience to concentrate more on what is being shown on the screen, Also we need to make this scene realistic by making sure at least the tires of the van get really close to the girls head as she lays half on the road and on the kerb.

As a group we decided this scene will be more realistic if the character driving the van sorts of leans over to change a CD not looking on the road until his just about to run the girl over.

Scene 4 The Asian girl receives a letter from the NHS on the letter it's written that she has brain tumor.

This scene is going to be very depressing and as a group we decided that the duration of this scene should not be very long

(approx 10-seconds) will be enough for us to show and give the audience what we feel is enough action for them to realise the situation

Group Aim:

WE NOW should make sure that we write up the initial proposal,

I think it will be good if we all write up our own account of what we think we should do

and then combine our ideas into one through comments.

NEWS AND GOSSIP

Home and Away also features a page or two where viewers could explore more about the cast aswel as the soap. 

From my research on the ''News and Gossip'' page, I found a couple of articles which is very likely for viewers to read as it is very intersting. Also, the page doesn't fully inform the viewers fully about what is happening but instead gives them hints about it.

An example of articles that I found is below:

New love for Leah

Home and Away's Leah Patterson-Baker has had a rocky love life over the years - but things could be looking up for her in 2010.

The lonely widow's previous relationships have ended in disaster, but a new resident is set to turn her head, sweep her off her feet and provide the loveable Summer Bay resident with some much-needed happiness, show bosses confirmed.

The newcomer's arrival will also mark the beginning of some strong storylines for Leah in the next 12 months.

Meanwhile, Ryan Kwanten - who played Leah's husband, Vinnie Patterson - can be seen in True Blood, now airing on Channel 4 in the UK.

He plays a redneck construction worker who becomes addicted to vampire blood in the spooky series - w

Rub some Hollyoaks on it Poster Anaylsis

Analysing Posters> Rubbing some Hollyoaks on it

By analysing and doing more research on the ways posters are presented to attract audiences, I have a more clear view on what we should present in our own poster. 

Firstly, colour is extremely important, this can make it more eye-catching sufficient and pleasant to observe it.

Secondly, like the < Hollyoaks advert on the left of this text, it has to leave a question mark or some sort of funny element to it, so that not only is it pleasant to look at it but it can create humorous prospects, therefore encourage more people to talk about it and remember it more efficiently.

Thirdly, I think its a good idea to be informative as well as presentable, by creating a good catchphrase it leaves it in the audiences mind, easily remembered, more watched. Its also extremely good as it presents the logo and everything in one. 

The use of having a realism approach on the left to signify the culture or broken relationships, obesity and bad-mannered dogs, compared to the controlled and well mannered characters in the right. This could also present the different contrast between these situations. The realist approach> not photoshopped, as real as it can get, trashy background, dingy walls, a dog peeing on the floor and that atmosphere of smoking alcohol and all sorts of trouble, compared to the classy, upper-class elite, chihuhaha money infested, rich young and beautiful stars, this brings out the Hollywood feel to it and the classy love storylines.

But put these two pictures together and compare them, you have many things in common, mainly, the same real truth. The storylines. Rub so Hollyoaks on it can symbolise, rubbing sparkle, style and beauty into characters, yet the storylines will remain the same ugly truth just like the ones on the picture on the left. 

I enjoy the fact that this picture is so explicit, it doesn't hide the ugly truth of reality, so the Fat woman smoking and looking extremely revolting compared to the beautiful skinny society accepted shiny hair and make up type. It also shows the audience that anyone can be as beautiful with some (Hollyoaks) rubbed into it and makes people feel good about themselves, as it informs them that although these characters are beautiful, they are destined to face extremely bad situations in their life.

I think that it is well presented and i want to get that element of humour into my poster as well, as well as being informative to make sure that the audiences will always be attracted into it yet leave it in their memory. Easily-rememberable is extremely vital in determining that people will watch it. Inventing a catch phrase is also a good way of encouraging people to remember it, so I think we should invent something and put it on the poster too.

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Home and Away ( Spoilers)

All tv soaps have spoilers. This is mainly done to get the audience more involved in the soap. There are different techniques that TV soaps use for their spoilers; TV magazines, posters and mini clips on the internet are all example of spoilers. Spoilers are also made to create new viewers; it is also very effective as anyone is likely to pick up a magazine or bump into a poster.
Persuasiave language is often used on the internet; it makes the veiwer want to view the clip as its giving him/her the opportunity to see what is going to happen even before the soap opera begins.
Below is an example of persuasive language which has been used on a 'SPOILERS' website.
Soap Opera Spoilers:
This is the soap opera spoilers index. As usual, WARNING: Soaps Spoilers Ahead! ... soooooooooo, do not click on any of these links if you do not want to find soap opera spoilers containing soap opera scoops, soap opera rumors, soap spoilers, speculation or clues concerning upcoming soap opera episodes or seasons. Remember, soaps spoilers and scoops like all TV spoilers are meant to be fun, and some may turn out incorrect ... *wink*.
http://www.spoilersnews.com/soap-opera-spoilers
But on the other hand, TV soap producers do tend to profit from all these spoilers as it doesn't fully inform the viewers but instead gives them a gist of what will happen. This process is very successful as it encourages the viewers to watch it later on.On Home and Away's official website, it gives the viewer the chance to view approximately five (5) minutes of the soap.
And this also includes advertisement-it is very important for spoiler to contain more than just a clip of the soap. Because if it is done in this way, it also gives its sponsers the opportunity to sell its self.
Below is the text that is featured on the website.
Tue 13 October, ep 4932: Indi's accident
Tuesday 06 October 2009 4:04PMIndi gets seriously hurt after indulging in drink and drugs, while Ruby goes undercover.
http://holysoap.five.tv/homeandaway/video/tue-13-october-ep-4932-indis-accident-3200