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

Welcome

Hi Joshua

Welcome to the wonderful world of blogging. This is now going to be an essential part of the diploma and where some of your assessment will be done. It is really important that you use this blog to keep a record of work and of evaluation during the course. I will be using it to keep an eye on you.
Miss L

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. 

Creative and Media Diploma

Creative & Media Diploma is the best subject for young people thinking of going into the media industry. I enjoy it because it is practical and interesting.