IVY WOOD - EVALUATION

Laura McCann 4600Aquinas College: 33435

Q1: CODES AND CONVENTIONSIn what ways does your product USE, DEVELOP and CHALLENGE existing codes and conventions?

PLANNING:http://lauramccanna2mediablog.blogspot.com/

I used to upload my planning, research and final products. By keeping a blog, this helped me to keep my

documents organised and in chronological order. I was able to make notes on my work and it allowed other members of the

class to comment on my pieces.

PLANNING:

SOAP FORMS AND

CONVENTIONS

POV SHOTS –Helps the audience

understand the characters emotions.

LITTLE MAKE UP and CASUAL CLOTHES to create

realism.

Filmed ON SET and not on LOCATION.

Camera asthe 4TH WALL

BIG CLOSE UP to create EMOTION

MULTIPLE CHARACTERS -keeps the audience

INTERESTEDand creates PARALLEL

NARRATVIES

Run CONTINUOUSLY on one channel

FEMININE GENRE - aimed primarily at

women

PLANNING:In order to create our own soap opera, we needed to understand the typical CODES AND CONVENTIONS for already existing soap operas.

To fully understand the CODES AND CONVENTIONS of a soap, we deconstructed an episode of EASTENDERS and evaluated it using: CAMERA, LIGHTING, SOUND and MISE EN SCENE.

EVAULATING AN EXISTING SOAPWe watched an existing episode of Eastenders and evaluated it using:• LIGHTING• SOUND• CAMERAWORK• MISE EN SCENE

This PowerPointcan be found on my blog.

SHOT SHOTREVERSE

The SHOT REVERSE SHOT gives the audience a chance to see each character’s individual EMOTION.

4TH WALL

The 4TH WALL lets the audience feel as though they are in the room with the characters, this makes the soap become more REALISTIC.

HOW DOES MY SOAP USE THECODES AND CONVENTIONS?My soap uses a VARIATION OF SHOT TYPES which I have compared with already existing soaps.