Fourth Group Meeting - TV Guide Ideas

Discussing our Tv guide cover

Thursday 22nd October 2009

Start time: 2:10pm

People present: Natalie Michael, Thegla Savvides and Natalie Nicolaides

• We began by drawing out a draft of how we want our cover to look.
  We planned where we wanted everything to be placed and how we wanted out title. We decided we wanted out title to be in the top left corner and we wanted it to be placed inside a TV.
• We then discussed possible titles for our cover. These included:
  -Teleh
  -Just TV
  -TV Rush
  -Ultimate TV
  -TV Revealed
  -TV World
  -Big Mouth

Finish time: 2:40

Written by Natalie Michael

Storyboard For An Episode Opening.

We 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? x'
• 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

Group effort. Written by Natalie Michael. Drawn by Natalie Michael and Thegla Savvides

Trailer Storyboard

We 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:
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.

  Typed By Natalie Michael.
  

Analysis of Hollyoaks Website

As a group we have decided to analyse the websites of the soaps we have been researching, including; Hollyoaks, Emmerdale, Home & Away, and Corination Street. This research, we believe, will help us decide what is acceptable of a conventional soap website and what we will include in our own. Colour schemes, features and amounts of pictures and text were taken into consideration throughout our research.

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/H/hollyoaks

The official Hollyoaks website is situated on the Channel 4 website. With 4OD now in place fans can watch Hollyoaks online at whatever time they want as well as get gossip,trailers and behing the scenes footage. It's features let you explore the characters and their backgrounds and see pictures in a gallery of upcoming episodes and previous episodes. After every aired episode the website is updates regularly, featuring new pictures and gossip everyday.

The site also links Hollyoaks related news to the website, such as Ricky Whittle (Calvin Valentine) competing in 'Strictly Come Dancing' being posted on the Hollyoaks website.

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/H/hollyoaks/news

Games and quizes can be played interactively online to add a bit of fun and see how well you know Hollyoaks.

Hollyoaks is to push the boundaries of cross-platform content by launching an online show that will also appear in the TV soap. Producer Lime Pictures and its digital arm, Conker Media, are developing Runners, a show-within-a-show that it plans to air daily on the teen soap's website.In Hollyoaks, characters will be seen talking about comedy-drama Runners and watching it on TV. The show is set among students working as runners in showbusiness and the fashion industry. It will be filmed in London close to transmission and will include sequences shot at events such as the Brit Awards.As well as brief clips of Runners appearing in the soap, Hollyoaks fans will be able to watch a full three-minute online episode each weekday for the 10-week initial run. Episodes are planned to appear on C4's Hollyoaks website as well as on Bebo, MSN Messenger TV, Facebook and iTunes.

What my group has learned from researching websites is that the features we allow our audience to have is very important. We must make our theme match the personality of our audience and provide what they would need to acomplish their desired task. Research from all of these soaps' websites has allowed us to see what they have in common but what they offer individualy. Our aim is to cater to all the needs of our users by taking on board what we have found and put it into our own website.

Progression Of Group Ideas

So far we are comfortably into our coursework process and have come up with numerous ideas, and through discussion and analysis of different soap operas, we have been able to elaborate on all of these ideas, all having our own individual input.Ethnic groups, sterotypes, middleclass Vs Lower class, are just a few of the ideas that have crossed our minds.
Here are some of the ideas we thought of

• Echoing thoughts
• Heartbeat Backtrack
• Girl being locked in her room; mother tries to get in
• She sits on her bed crying, rocking, shaking, make-up running dow her face
• Her thoughts in a scene - white board with pictures/equations
  

We definitly work well as a group taking in everyones ideas and moulding them to suit everyones liking.

We also decided on:
Final image a dead body, back to girl on bed rocking, close up of face.
Heart beat-flashing images on every beat
From picture of girl on bed, to board to close up of her face etc.
Mother trying to talk to her and get into her room- turning of the door handle- but she cant hear her because of the noises in her head.
IV drip-dead body-
girls face-running makeup- crying frozen with hands on ears-
zoom out and Iv appears on screen with siren sounds.

These are only the progression of our idea, and not our final decisions.

Group Effort, Written By Thegla Savvides

Minutes For Second Group Meeting

Discussing character types, ideas for trailer and story boarding first episode.

Tuesday 6th October

Start Time: 11:06am

People Present: Elena Christodoulou, Thegla Savvides, Natalie Michael, Natalie Nicolaides
As a group we first discussed different character types that we think would appeal to our target audiences, We began mapping out different characteristics that individually appealed to us.
Some ideas where a posh character that doesn't look posh, bad looking characters who are very well behaved, The popular girls and the misfits.
We discussed numerous ideas for the trailer, one of us comes up with an idea and by the end we all have had an input.
Some of the ideas for our trailer, we've elaborated upon and decided it for the first episode, allowing us to leave numerous cliff hangers in the trailer and prolong them onto the episode.
We asked ourselves many questions like...Is the trailer going to be a spoiler of an unrealistic scene-e.g. like at the beginning of Hollyoaks with the supernatural and flashbacks etc.
We also set each other targets in order for things to all be completed in time and in order, keeping us up to date.
We discussed a few locations, and the advantages and disadvantages of these.
Some of the ideas we came up with, where more of a challenge than others we discussed how we would work around certain problems and in some cases lack of required props, i.e. recording in a shop-copyrighting issues- and our main idea of having a clear board for characters thoughts.

Finish Time: 12:20pm

Analysis of Hollyoaks Review

In the nineties we saw the birth of many fantastic forms of entertainment. Take That sparked sexy malepop, The Spice Girls introduced us to ’girl power’ and hollyoaks stormed on to our screens with its young and beautiful cast. Only oneof these has fully survived the last decade, growing from strength tostrength and eventually gaining the respect of the British public and critics alike: Hollyoaks.

Over the years we’ve seen rape, murder,drugs...to name but a few! Hollyoaks has repeatedly gained theattention of young adults in Britain, but has in its beginningsfailed to gain the respect of critics and the wider population. Thatwas until the hard hitting story lines of 2007 were aired.In recent months we have seen bulimiaending in tragedy, teacher student relations resulting in a prisonstabbing and a murderous gold digging wife. These are a few storylines amongst many that have made the wider public and critics reallysit up and take notice. As we have clung to the edge of our seatsawaiting numerous revelations, the standard of acting has rapidly improved.

This years soap awards have seen Chris Fountain secure bestactor for his role as Justin Burton, the vindictive school boy whobedded his teacher only to have her incarcerated. Emma Rigby followedhis triumph by securing best actress for playing Hannah Ashworth thepretty A Level student ravaged by bulimia. Roxanne Mckee maintainedHollyoaks’ reputation as the soap that stuns, by once again beingnamed as sexiest actress. Overall Hollyoaks swiped 6 awards, puttingour usual favorites to shame!

Aside from its award victories Hollyoaks has smashed the storylines that have broken others. In thepast month incest has been on the tips of everyones tongues, in Brookside it was gut wrenching, but the cast and crew of Hollyoaks made it heart wrenching. Elliot Bevan, the resident geek, broughtabout the tricky subject of alien activity. This was far removed fromEl Dorado’s ridiculously farsical attempt, instead it was a tearjerking story of a confused young man searching for his father.The story lines may be slightly obscene, the characters may be overly gorgeous, but theres no denying that in the past twelve months Hollyoaks has really come in to its own.

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