1. Question 4
How did you use
media technologies in
the construction and
research, planning
and evaluation
stages?

2. Because we used the E4 age range we decided to use E4 to broadcast our
trailer. We found the E4 style guide and made the right title cards for our
trailer. We also used the style guide to do our ancillaries. Here are some of
the requirements of the style guide.

3. We wanted our poster to reflect the channel so we had a look at existing posters
for E4 programmes. I analysed them and looked at the features so we could use
some of them in our poster.

4. Title of programme at the
Picture of the sea and a top of the page.
sunset in the background
and the fact the female
characters have bare legs Day and time of the
suggests that the programme.
programme is set
somewhere hot near the
beach. All main characters in
shot. Arms round each
other to show a
connection between
them. Eye contact with
the audience to establish
a connection with the
audience
Channel it is
broadcast on.

5. 90210 poster analysis
Characters The background
holding hairspray looks like the tiles in
and lip gloss a bathroom. This
suggest that the makes the audience
programme is assume these
going to be quite people are getting
glamorous. The ready to go out and
characters all look they like to spend
like they are time of their
looking at appearance. Maybe
themselves in the quite vain and
mirror getting possibly rich.
ready to go out to Sparkly E4 tape and logo. This also
a party. suggest the programme is quite
glamorous.

6. Misfits poster analysis.
Some characters have
eye contact and others
don’t. the expressions
on the characters
faces show what their
characters personality
is like. They have to
get this across in one
Pictures of all
photo.
the main
characters.
E4 logo as a
The E4 ‘tape’ with the name of the ‘sticker’
programme and the date and time.

7. Existing TV soap magazines

8. Trashy looking TV magazine
Big picture of stars
with big anchored
headline. Biggest
Big logo in the
shock story of the
corner so you know
week is the biggest
the brand of
picture.
magazine.
Big price sticker to
show its cheap.
Can throw it away Other soap storylines
after a week an round the edges. Name
buy another one. of the programme and a
little description to make
you want to watch it.

9. Professional looking TV magazine
Strap showing the
channels the
magazine is best
Big title across the top for.
of the page is a plain
and simple font.
Main information in
white boxes to
highlight them and
make the audience
Big close up of the drawn to them.
star takes up the
whole of the page.
Eye contact with the
reader.
Smaller pictures of
other programmes
round the edges in
white buttons. Draws
Headline anchored the reader to them.
to the star.

10. Existing soap opera trailers
I used youtube to look at existing soap opera trailers. This helped to think
of ideas for storylines and to see the conventions used in the trailers.
Using youtube I could upload my finished trailer and also put it into my
blog.

11. Communication
I used a blog to communicate with my teacher. On the blog I could post all the
work I had done and my teacher could see it all.
My teacher can leave comments on my work and I can edit it.

12. Blogger
I changed some of the design of
my blog like the text and layout.
this made my blog more personal
and interesting to look at.

13. YouTube
I also used YouTube to post the rough cut and final versions of my
trailer. This let me upload the video and post it in my blog to get
feedback. People can leave comment on the video on YouTube so I can
edit my video.

14. Twitter
I used twitter to communicate with my teacher. I could ask her questions about
the work out of lesson because we both have twitter on our phones. This
made it easier to get feedback from her.

15. Slideshare
I used slideshare to upload my PowerPoint's to my blog. I could upload them
onto slideshare and then embed the link into my blog so all my work was
together. It didn't take long to do and kept my work neat and organised.

16. iMacs
We used the iMacs to edit the footage our group had collected. We used the
program iMovie to upload our footage to and edit. In this program we could do
things like add effects and slow and speed up footage. From this program we
could upload our rough cuts and final trailer.