Editing our soap trailer: Visual Effects

We chose to use these visual effect:

• Shake - This effect made the camera visually move. This effect made the audience feel involved or experience what the characters are going through. We used the shake effect when Mark pushed/shook his girlfriend away.
• Slow Motion - We used this effect for emphasising significant parts of our soap trailer to make them stand out to the audience. Slow motion was used to exaggerate the fight in the soap trailer and make this action more powerful to the audience.

We used a few transitions in our soap trailer as well, which were;

• Blur
• Cross Dissolve
• Directional Angle

Using transitions and effects makes our soap trailer visually exciting and the pace helps to move make the trailer 'flow' and fit together. They make the trailer's pace fast, intriguing and exciting for the audience and this will appeal to our target audience. 

Editing our soap trailer: Title Screen.

As we was researching different soap trailers, we found that they all had a title screen at the end or beginning of their soaps which would advertise the soap name and which channel the soap would be on.We looked at the traditional BBC title screen as this is the channel that we decided we want our soap to be broadcasted on:

As we wanted to appeal to the younger audience we decided to change the traditional title screen. We also thought this would stand out from the other programs that are our competition on BBC one. Therefore, we decided to change the layout of the writing and the colour. We changed the colour from the traditional red to blue.

Our music

Our music ideas for our soap trailer:

• 4String - Take Me Away (Neucore Mix) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsKGeE5Awc8
• Joman - Epedemic (Neucore Mix) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uo9T8iI1ao
• Un-copyrighted Music Songs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0PcBzNRrdg
• Non-Copyrighted Music Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMIDONPtCUE 

As our soap is aimed at the younger audience we wanted a song to be quite modern but also a song that is catchy and will draw the audience to watch the trailer. We wanted this to get the audience 'hooked' and intriguing to watch this soap because the music is upbeat and catchy. Although we found that some modern music didn't fit the soap trailer.

From 'Non-Copyrighted Music Part 1', we decided to chose the 4th song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMIDONPtCUE

Evidence of filming.

These photo's show evidence of filming. We took as couple at each location we went to.





These photo's show how we used different types of shots and angles. It also shows how we set up the equipment effectively to get the best footage we could.





These images also so some of the characters in our soap trailer and us filming the characters.

Props.

We used a few props whilst we filmed our soap trailer. These were:

• Baby scan picture.
• Bike.
• Bag. 
• Suitcase.
• Car.
• Mobile Phone.

Locations

Characters.

We had a range of characters for our soap trailer. Here are pictures of the characters we used.

Grandparents and grandaughter.

Young mother with her child.

Ricky, the bad guy.

Helen, going through teenage pregnancy.

Rowen, Toni and Mark, the love triange.