Our task was to take pictures of our setting ideas, our main idea is a shot of a long street with the characters and the story lines interweaving with each other along the way. Certain characters bumping into each other mainly relying on facial expressions and actions rather than much speech. The title of our soap with decided to be 'Avenue' it is a unique name which fits, suggested by a fellow group member who lives down the street. We will likely use this picture as a main logo for the soap, the sign being rusted with an average brick wall suggests realism along with giving an urban feel which again establishes our younger audience with the love of 'RnB' and 'rap' music in the younger society.
This picture shows a Polish shop which we'll try to include in our trailer we chose this to connote a larger ethniticty and it also quite representational of today's multi-cultural society. We'll try to film inside however we haven't asked permission yet so we may just have to film outside it.
This shot shows another potential idea for a street where the majority of the soap trailer will be set however due to the lack of shops etc we will likely not use this street as we want a street that has economical values also as not alot would happen down a street with little of interest down it as conventionally soaps have a range of shops as well as a larger community which this street doesn't appear to provide.
This shot is another potential idea, this street has alot more interesting houses so a bigger sense of community however it still lacks shops etc but we may link the street with another more urban street through editing and camera-work.
Another potential idea which could be combined with the previous picture and another further on, its key because it contains a range of shops like a florist a corner shop and a dry cleaners which relate to a lot of our key stories.
We were planning to use a florist as we want one of the characters from a love triangle to buy some flowers, he would walk out and try to give them to the girl he loves but sees her with another man, he then drops the bouquet after seeing this tragedy and then the story moves on to the next character. We asked permission to use this shop on the day of filming also so hopefully all goes to plan. We think its a good convention to have shops in soaps which the characters own such as 'Dev' owning the corner shop in Coronation street and Dot being in charge of the launderette in Eastenders.
This shot we chose in particularly to see a confrontation between our drug dealer character and our 'jack-the-lad' character were the jack the lad character holds him against the wall and takes the drugs from him. Stereotypically the 'trouble maker' character of a soap and the 'jack-the-lad' of the soap conventionally have some dealings. It also is in the conventional area for a sort of 'fight' or 'confrontation' to take place being a more secluded area, an alley-way usually connotes danger as well due to being dark as well as secluded.
We chose this shop once again for a conventions but also this shop will be good to reflect our 'buisness type character who will emerge happy with a freshly dry-cleaned suit which will be knocked down to the ground by a 'thug' type character causing annoyance to insure as he'll be running late for a meeting and cares greatly about his appearance which again is quite a conventional repetitive story in soaps, films and dramas alike so the audience should feel 'right at home' with such a story, along with it being a conventional story which would likely occur to this type of character.
This shot is another idea we had for a confrontation scene due to it being an alleyway conventionally it relates to danger.
This park may be an idea for our younger 'rebelious-teen' characters to hang out as stereotypically teenagers often get drunk in parks especially late at night, so this will be realistic representation of society as soaps should be. We chose this as it would be an accurate location for this along with some5thing that the younger generation can relate with quite easily.
This photo and the three below show the market on market day, as we will be filming our trailer on a Thursday we thought we'd try to take advantage of this as it shows a lot of industry,
This picture could be a possible place where some characters of our soap could meet however its liable to change. We chose this location for a similar reason we chose the one below, that there not overly crowded places but crowded enough to make the soap appear realistic.
We haven't decided if we will use this church in the trailer at all, if we do it would represent different religious groups of the soap to make it appear more dynamic but as of yet we don't know if it will fit in to our final project or not.
A more scenic location where characters could meet etc.
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| We used this picture as just an example of a pub as every soap needs a 'meeting place' which is usually a pub for most soaps and we used this as an example but we will definitely include a pub in our soap as its a conventional necessity for drama, one of our group members Michael has told us that he is friends with the people that own another pub nearby, and we will hopefully be able to film inside the pub, which is very beneficial to our soap indeed. |
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