End of Filming Wednesday 16th March

On Wednesday the 16th we finally finished our filming for our new soap trailer. We used our new; production schedule, shooting schedule and new storyboard in order to help us with the filming of the shots.

We choose to re-shot scenes as after viewing them we understood that they needed to be replaced as the lighting was poor and unclear to the audience. We also decided to add a new narrative into the soap as we felt our trailer looked more like an opening than a trailer. We had a discussion about our old shootings and thought that our targeted audience would not understand some of narrative used. However we made it more clearer for our audiences' to understand the soap trailer but at the same time to entice them to want to view our future episodes.

All shots were filmed in the daylight as this was issue for us previously. Natural light was important for our soap trailer as we wanted audiences to understand what was being portrayed by the characters in order to interest them and excite new audiences.

The scenes re-shoot was the conflict between Michael and Billy. Shot reverse shot was used to explain the relationship between the two characters, as the audience will be able to understand this well. A range of long and close up shots were used throughout the filming to express the characters profile such as clothing as well as body and facial expressions. The new narrative was also shot, an over the shoulder shot was used to include the prop of a photograph into the frame which explained the reasons as to why our character was upset, a close up shot was also shown to express this feeling if audiences were unsure of the props purpose. It was important to put ourselves in the eyes of an audience member as sometimes we can forget some narrative storylines may be hard to understand.

We accomplished our final filming by shooting the correct shots and using a sense of compositions. All the characters arrived at filming on time and ready to act. It was important that all characters began to act before the camera started rolling and after to ensure that the filming looked realistic. Sinthuja and Tamika both filmed on this day whereas I (Maria) was the director. We watched all the filming back before the end of the day in case any shots needed re-shooting before we were ready to edit. All the shots were as expected and the new narrative w

as clear.

At the end of our filming we discussed how and when we were going to edit our final shooting. For instance; do we use voice over?, do we add non-diegetic sound in our trailer?, do we add special effects to our soap trailer?. Our production company had a lot of important decisions to assemble. By the side of our filming we also filmed our character interviews; to get an insight of how they felt about playing their particular characters' and how they can/cannot relate to them. We will place these interviews on our company's website, to promote our new soap opera or even to promote the audiences' favorite character. Our next step of our progress is to create magazines covers to entice our target audiences even more, this is also another way of prom

oting our new soap trailer.

The images below shows the character Esther played by Maria Alexiou putting on Make-Up for the shooting. The images were taken on the second day of filming.