Soap Opera Trailer weekend homework

AS Media soap trailer task:

Find any soap trailer, take and annotate print screens identifying the following conventions. Print and bring to Monday’s lesson as you will be recreating part of your trailer around college next lesson.

·       Master/ establishing shot

·       2 shot

·       Shot-reverse-shot

·       BCU (big close- up)

·      Dialogue: transcribe dialogue and explain how the plot and narrative perspective are conveyed quickly. Also sound bridging and "thought beats"

·       Eyeline matches through framing

·       Multiple narratives and main storylines repeated in the trailer to tie everything together

·       Depth of field (subjects at different distances from the camera, all can be seen clearly)

·       Pull focus (items at different distances come into focus at different times)

·       Lighting and shadow used to create suspense

·       Camera as predator (shot through/from behind objects so audience feels like they are hiding from the characters and invading privacy)

·       Title cards and channel(name of soap on screen with a brand identity)

Here's a great Eastenders trailer with lots of sound bridging, edits that match the non- diegetic score, short pieces of dialogue that conveys the plot. It also has lots of different shot types, movement, eyeline matches and good examples of shot- reverse- shots and more than one camera being used to shoot a scene.

Some good examples of Hollyoaks trailers are below: