26th January

26th January

Today we added some finishing touches to the opening title sequence. However it could still do with a little tweaking. We also uploaded scenes which we filmed on the weekend and started utting them together, we also decided on filming at my house on wednesday.

22nd january

22nd January

Today we carried on editing and putting together the title sequence. I feel it went well and that the title sequence was going to come out very well. We timed the clip changes with the music this helped bring the title sequence together.

9th january

21st January- Editing the title sequence

Today we sarted putting together the clips, pictures and theme tune to make our title sequence. We decided to tweak a few problems with the theme tune aswell and added a good finishing. We cut out pictures we didnt want and made them flow well together and also started mixxing the clips in aswell. We did have some problems with the computer where we had to upload all of our footage again which did put us behind a little bit. Because of this me and coutnee decided to meet up tomorrow lunch and catch up on the work that we couldn't do.





19th January- title sequence.

Today we filmed some scenes that would be used in our title sequence , we tryed our best to captuer characters with in there personalitys a bit like the title sequence to hollyoaks, WE then uploaded these clips. Me and Ange then started work and finished the theme tune for the title sequence, we produced this theme tune on Garageband. We tryed to make the theme tune sound catchy but also not to merry , however not to grim this would be to sybolize the ups and downs of real life and how people lives in our soap opera were like this. While we were working on this Josh and Courtnee went out and filmed for clips for the Title sequence.


17th january - Filming

Today we met in cotteridge for an early start and fantastic fun filled day of filming. After meeting we headed of to joshs wonderful house and set out the furniture for the scenes we needed to film. We rehersed many hard hours and made sure that the scene was to perfection.

14th January- Location scouting

Today me and ange went to the town center to take pictures for the oepneing title sequence we got a variety of shots ranging from upper class areas to gritty run down areas. We also managed to get a few arial shots and got many shots of well known birmingham monuments. Courtnee and josh stopped local and took pictures of locations we would be using to film.

9th january - editing

Today we uploaded the footage that we made for the bil workshop. We then started editing the footage slightly and choosing which clips off the fotage that we wanted.

7th january

7th January-The Bill workshop

Today we were given an insight into the world of directing and life on the set of filming a television programme. Sebastian, who had been in shows like the bill and coronation street taught us about the different shots they would use, for example a master shot, this would be the shot which you base most your soap around. The master shot would film one straight take of the scene.He also taught us how to direct and what each individual job was on the set. I also learnt that like of the set was very quick and smooth. After showing us the ropes sebastian split us up into groups and let us go off and film the scene from the script he gave us which was from the crime drama "The Bill".I felt this went well in our groups as we got to switch positions and got a feel for each job on the set for like actor,director and camera man.We managed to film t he scene 3 times with a variety of shots like close ups,two shots and master shots.I felt this worked very well. At the end of the day we got to ask questions which i learned alot about getting a career in the media, even though the jobs they where telling us about wasn't what i wanted to get into, i still felt it helped my knowledge of media and if i ever changed my mind i would know what to do. I learned alot from the workshop and feel i gained some skills and knowledge in camera work,directing and also acting.

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.