Capture - Capturing realism with soap opera

15th December
Today we made an evaluation on our title sequence and its storyboard. We reflected on our ideas and wrote about if we felt it fittd the genre well. We also evaluated the realism of it and if we felt the audience could realte to it or not. After completing this we carried on with ur script, we wrote the actions of the characters and we ordered te scenes to what we felt was best. We also worked on the presentation which had to be in for thursday.

12th December
Today we had to presentate our soap to the rest of the class, we had to also decide which channel we wanted it on. After doing all of our chanel research we decided to put our soap n channel 4. We then typed up why we wanted our soap on channel 4.

11th December
We started to work on the script today, we started off by doing stage directions and deciding which order characters will enter scenes.

we also wrote about why we think our title sequence will fit the soap genre. We wrote about how the images and music we will be using will fit .








10th December
Today we storyboarded our opening title serquenc. This meant choosing images and music that we think would link and work well together. I feel that it went ok and i feel that our opening sequence could do with a little bit more work and research. We aslo researched BARB about what the company did and what it was about.



8th December
Today we presented our soap to the class, where we had to explain our soaps in detail about the issues it would tackle and the themes we would deal with.I felt it went very well as we where being assessed we achived 12 out of 15 giving us a level 3.We also recived feedback which we will be using to help improve our ideas.



4th december
Today we finished out presentations for monday.We decided to do our presentations on powerpoint because we felt this would make it easier to present. We decided to split up and do two different powerpoints, one was on themes and issues the other was on characters and their storylines.



3rd December
Today we carried on with the character profiles and completed them.We worked on linking the characters and worked on their storylines.We then worked on how our opening sequence would look.


1st December
Today we created a mindmap of ideas.I felt that we had a variety of ideas.After completing the mind map we developed the ideas that we liked.We then started on the character profiles.



25th November
For todays lesson we all spli up into individual parts of research. My job was to research codes & conventions , i felt this worked very well and i developed alot of knowledge on what we would be using for our Soap.

Work we have done

Soap Opera

For our soap opera project we had to produce a section of a programme called "how to define british soap" In this we looked at the history of British soap and the influences of social realism. We also looked at the code and conventions of the soap opera and defined it. We also did a section on wether Hollyoaks is a soap or team drama. We Story boarded and scripted the programme and then we filmed it and edited it the film lasted between 4-7 minutes. In this project i learnt that panning is important when you have a small deadline to work with.

About Me

hi lads (and ladies) my name is Ben but u can refer to me as B dot or big Ben.In my spare time i like to eat cereal and cut grass.My favorite subject is Creative media(obviously). I am taking this diploma because i find media really interesting and love to be creative. I hope to one day get into the advertising business. Thank you for reading. 

About The Diploma

The Creative Media Diploma 

The Creative Media Diploma is a very recent course it is worth 3.5  A levels and takes up to 2 a level subjects. 

It is a very practical course and doesn't involve that much theory. The course mixes many creative aspects together including Music, media and performing arts. 

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All that is required for this course is a creative mind and wide imagination with a friendly attitude. :)