Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Overall I think our product is extremely realistic and have tried to stay to the conventions of existing soap operas as much as possible. We have, like all soap adverts, used the same character throughout all of our media products and set the soap in locations which are familiar to us and the audience. The storyline we used is realistic and one which viewers themselves may have found themselves or someone they know in.
Although I feel that our media products are similar to existing ones the main difference is that we have drawn inspiration from older soap adverts, that do not feature special effects but instead lifts clips from the actual soap. Although a modern soap opera advert would have been extremely enjoyable to film, it would not be possible for us to use special effects to the standard that existing products used and therefore may have looked unrealistic.
We used title credits. just like in existing soaps. Displaying the one word name of the soap (which came to me off the top of my head!) which flashes up at the end. We displayed our title credits over the ending of the sequence which is a development on existing adverts as it usually comes up on a separate plain background. We chose to display our credits over the top of our end sequence to heighten the suspense for the viewer.
Overall I think our product is extremely realistic and have tried to stay to the conventions of existing soap operas as much as possible. We have, like all soap adverts, used the same character throughout all of our media products and set the soap in locations which are familiar to us and the audience. The storyline we used is realistic and one which viewers themselves may have found themselves or someone they know in.
Although I feel that our media products are similar to existing ones the main difference is that we have drawn inspiration from older soap adverts, that do not feature special effects but instead lifts clips from the actual soap. Although a modern soap opera advert would have been extremely enjoyable to film, it would not be possible for us to use special effects to the standard that existing products used and therefore may have looked unrealistic.
We used title credits. just like in existing soaps. Displaying the one word name of the soap (which came to me off the top of my head!) which flashes up at the end. We displayed our title credits over the ending of the sequence which is a development on existing adverts as it usually comes up on a separate plain background. We chose to display our credits over the top of our end sequence to heighten the suspense for the viewer.
We had problems staying to the conventions of a soap poster as we found it difficult to find any existing soap advert posters. We therefore had to create our own idea and therefore went for a comic element.
