The Vale

Evaluation - Question 4

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Evaluation - Question 3

"What have you learnt from audience feedback?"

This is a boxpop of the audience fee back we gathered after displaying our opening sequence in our Media Studies Showcase. 

From audience feed back I have learnt that viewers mostly think that 'The Vale' could be launched on E4 which is the TV we preferred. 
Gathering feedback also taught me how to look at my work more critically during the editing stages as the viewer may see it differently to me and it is important that it strongly relate to my target audience.  

Evaluation - question 2

How effective is the combination of your media product and ancillary tasks?

 

This is my poster advertising 'The Vale'

TV Listings Magazine 

                                              First draft                                                                                                                                   Final draft

POSTER
  I selected the image shown in my poster because it shows the three main character who's stories inter twain. The male characters have their hoods up showing the sketchiness of the characters as if they have something to hide whilst the more dominating character wears a hat. The location of the shot was chosen as it can often attract young teens from working class backgrounds who are our target audience. 

TV Listings Magazine
  When using photo shop my skills soon developed which then helped me to progress onto my final draft. I decided to change the images used as it was poor quality and I had many more to choose from after we carried out a photo shoot. I liked the use of a graffiti background as it brightened up the front cover making it more appealing to my target audience. 
  I used the same text for "The Vale" in both my poster and magazine front cover so that the viewer could easily recognize my soap opera. 
  I stuck with conventional text displayed on the front cover as advertising other teenage interests would also attract my target audience to buy my product.

How I met my brief 
  I have met my brief by giving myself personal deadlines which I stuck to in order to successfully work in a small group producing a 2 minute teaser trailer for a soap opera and creating a poster and font cover of a TV listings magazine.

Difficulties in producing my three main products

• setbacks with filming due to illness and bad weather
• new to photo shop - had to learn how to use it
• could only access photo shop at home and therefor could not continue with work at home.

Evaluation - question 1

Evaluation

“In what ways does your media product use, develop and challenge forms and conventions on real media products?”

Use of narrative

To help us to develop our soap opera, ‘The Vale’, we have used and developed many different conventions which are displayed in real soap operas seen today on television.

The following images are stills from ‘The Vale’ which outline the use of the story lines, whilst showing cross plots and multi stranding.

  

Here we can see one of the main characters ‘Taz’ in four different story lines. Cross plots and multi stranding are used as we see the character ‘Taz’ linked to several different story lines. From these chosen stills you can also see that we have more than one story line being displayed at one time which is conventional for real TV soap operas.

We have used stock characters as well as main characters in order to help us build story lines.

Here is a still of Laurens mum entering the frame. We only have a short clip of her and don’t show her identity as she is only used to build help create a story line. This is done in soap operas to create a realistic feel to the soap opera.

 Gritty realism is used greatly in soap opera where heart hitting story lines are addressed building the views emotions with a character.

  

Here we see gritty realism with two heart hitting story lines and the automatic stereotypes. These storylines are created via with use of location, props and costumes.

The realism is created by the dealing of dugs in an urban grimy like area whilst wearing ‘chav’ like clothing of jogging bottoms, hooded tops and trainers. This also relates to propps theory were he argues that the characters that appear in narratives can be divided into just eight character types.

It is also conventional for soap operas to have cliff hangers. This is done to create suspense leaving the viewer wanting to see what happens next but having to wait until then next episode for all to be revealed.

Here we have created a cliff hanger as Lauren leaves the house to run away. This was created by not showing where she was going or who she was running away with. We did this so that the view would want to watch the follow up to the story line to find out what happens.

 Mise-en-scene

These are stills of the locations in which we used for ‘The Vale’.

   

We chose these locations as people likely to watch our soap opera would be able to relate to them where as if we had a manor house and country parks it would be in realistic.

Here are stills of the props we used throughout our teaser trailer.

                       

Show Case Poster

This is my show case poster which I am going to display around school.

Media Studies Show Case

In ordered to show case our work our schools 6th form media students are all participating in a show case after noon. Our 5 upper 6th form students, including myself are all managing the event. We have all worked together as a team devising set tasks for all the various media students and making sure we are on track to deliver a warm welcoming show case. 

work from all the various media students will be displayed and we will also interview a variety of different people regarding their thoughts and opinions on our trainer  'The Vale'.

This is a list of every persons jobs we allocated in class to best suit everybody's skills and interests.

These are a copy of our show case tickets which will be given to staff members.