Christmas Holiday 18 December - 5 January

A story board for our soap opera was drawn up over this time, in correlation to the typed up script.

17th December 2008

The script for our soap opera was finalised and typed up. The group also looked at an alternative to actually having a band for our theme tune by looking on garage band, this may be a good option despite the lack of some neccesarry instruments.

16th December 2008

The script was lookled further into at home and a draft copy completed.

15th December 2008

We gave our presentation to the rest of the class, talking aboout why are soap should be shown on chosen channel (channel 4) and how it fits in to their chosen target audience. This was filmed:

Weekend 13-14 December 2008

Our presentation was finished during this time.

12 December 2008

The presentation was looked at further we decided what we should put in it, including information about how our themes will relate to characters.

11th December 2008

Today we started thinking about a presentation we would use as a kind of mock pitch to the channel we would want our soap opera to be on.

10th December 2008

Today we stared story boarding for the theme tune and wrote a rough draft for some of the script.

9th December 2008

Today I researched BARB and wrote notes on it.

8 December 2008

Today we showed our presentatiosn to the rest of the class, it as acted as a kind of pitch. We talked about themes and issues raised in the soap and the characters we were going to use and how they are linked.

Themes
Characters (waiting for presentation to be sent)

Weekend 7-8 December 2008

Finished the table on terrestrial channels programming

5 December 2008

Started research on channel five as well as started further research into the kind of programmes that feature on the terrestrial channels.

4 December 2008

In this lesson we finalised our presentations

3 December 2008

This lesson we started research on channel 5 and finished the character profiles. We then started planning a presentation for our pitch.

2 December 2008

I went further into character profiles at home as well as doing research on channel four.

1 December 2008

This lesson we went further into our character profiles thinking in more detail about their back stories, etc.

Weekend 28-30 November 2008

At home finished the character profile for the character I was asigned.

27 November 2008

Today the group started to create character profiles for some of the characters we had chosen and thoughtmore about casting.

26 November 2008

Today the group fine tuned ideas, deciding what characters and/or storylines we would attribute to them.

25 November 2008

Today I went home and did the research on BBC Two and then the research on settings in british Soap Opera.

24 November 2008

This lesson we set about planning the pre production stage of our project. Everyone in the group writing it up and typing it up later. I will need to do research the setting s of a soap opera for my homework

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British Soap Opera

British Soap Opera, we studied existing Soap Operas such as Hollyoaks, Eastenders, Emmerdale, the Archers and Corronation Street, analysing the codes and conventions of the genre and aiming to use them in our own work. An important aspect of this is the social realism used first within the genre in Coronation Street, this was influenced by films such as A Taste of Honey (1961) that showed life in a gritty realistic way.

 I went about creating a timeline documenting the history of the British Soap Opera, starting from the 1930's radio soap operas such as Guiding light on the NBC network in America transcending to modern day, controversial soaps such as Hollyoaks, that document life with a more youth based orientation, still using the social realist style. 

 We were given the task of creating a seven minute section for a television programme called "British TV for Beginners" entitled: "Defining British Soap". We started out by planning our ideas and included production necessities such as writing a script, story boarding shooting and editing. 

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