Magazine and Poster layouts

Thanks to our analysis's of different soap magazines and posters, we could begin thinking about the final design of our own soap poster and magazine for our soap. We each created our own designs for the two publications and decided which of each designs worked the best. Although we didn't decide on my magazine for the final design, we did choose my poster idea. This idea shows the cast lined up looking shocked with George's eyes fading in from the background. To illustrate this design, we made a very rough version in Photo Shop.

My Magazine and Poster Designs
Rough draft of George's eyes in the soap poster

Auditions and final script

Finishing off the final script by making improvements to the initial script meant we could start auditioning people for the roles. This was quite a simple process but finding people for each role proved harder than we had expected. We eventually got auditionees for each role and everything went quite smoothly. When it came to auditioning the role of Jenny's parent we had initially stated that we wanted the character to be Jenny's mum but we auditioned a male, forgetting what we had already said. Because the person we auditioned played the role so well, we decided to change the character to be Jenny's step dad. We had to make him her step dad because they are from different ethnic backgrounds.

To amend this, I created a new character profile for Jenny's step dad including new background information and a new costume list.

Final Script
Audition videos
Casting Information
Jenny's guardian character change

Locations and Equipment

In order to have a clear idea of everything needed to produce our soap trailer, we needed to produce lists describing and illustrating the equipment (including everything from filming equipment to the clothes the cast will wear) and locations. For this, each group member created assigned lists and gave input into the other lists. I created the locations list, describing the places which will be required in our filming. Initially we were going to film the marriage in a church but due to difficulty in getting permission to film in one, we are going to film in a registry office instead.
I also gave input into what clothes cast members should wear, in order to connote their characteristics best in the trailer.

Prop List
Costumes
Equipment
Locations

Storyboarding for our soap

To create a clear and precise outline of what will feature in our soap, we have created three storyboards including a regular story board, an animatic storyboard and a photographic storyboard. Our whole group contributed to the production of these as they show the shots and transitions which will be used when it comes to creating our piece. We each gave our own ideas of how we think the shots and transitions should be made. I helped out by taking pictures, featuring in pictures and creating pictures for our different storyboards. I also spoke over the animated storyboard along with Abi.

Animatic
Photographic
Initial Storyboard

Soap magazine and poster analysis 2

Soap mag

Poster