Monday 15th December

In the 1st period we evaluated our title sequence.
In the 2nd period we started our presentation for our pitch on wednesday. We had to write about the channel, time and schedule of our soap opera. We completed most of it and will finish it by wednesday.
In the 3rd period we started writing our scripts. We had to use speach but also the facial expressions, body language, movement, costume etc of the character. This was quite difficult as we had to include every detail and had to think carefully. We will continue with the script on wednesday.

Friday 12th December

In the single lesson today we made our audience questionnaire and completed this ready to hand out to people. Our next aim was to create a presentation about the channel and time we were going to show our soap opera on. We will start this in mondays lesson and have it completed by wednesdays lesson.

Thursday 11th December

In this single lesson we wrote about our title sequence saying what influenced our ideas and why we think they work.

Wednesday 10th December

Today we had four periods and first we had a meeting with our teacher to show we had reflected on our presentation and discussed what went well, what could have been changed and what we could improve on. As one of our points was to improve on having older characters we added 2 more characters which fitted in the storylines. We created character profiles for these characters.
We then made a mindshower of what we were going to include in out title sequence. After we started to storyboard out title sequence and i was happy with what we came up with as we all contributed to good ideas that would target our audience most effectively. The pictures on our storyboard were not the best but we managed to show what we wanted to!
We finished our storyboard by the end of period 3.

In period 4 we did some more research on regulation and conrtol and researched BARB, This was completed in the lesson and was stuck in my portfolio by fridays lesson.

Monday 8th December

1st & 2nd period...

Today we presented our Pitch to the class and teacher. I was pleased with our pitch and we received 13 out of 15 and a level 3! :)

Presentation.

We then relfected on our presentation including: What worked, What needs changing, What needs further research and what we will do next...

We agreed that our ideas were well researched and thorough. Our storylines and characters
fit together well and the characters can relate to them. Our team work worked well and the links between storylines make it realistic and effective.
We agreed that to improve we need to add a few older characters in order to make the characters ages varied.
What needs further research is the timing of the scenes and storylines as they need to fit in well in the 2 minutes.
The next thing we will do is create an older character in there 30's. Then we will start scripting and storyboarding.

3rd period...

We began to research regualtion and control which is an important part in research. We researched OFCOM, finding as much information as we could. I will finish this for next lesson on wednesday.

Friday 5th December

In this singles lesson today we researched the genre and scheduling of programmes for the five terrestrial channels which we have researched: BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4, and Channel 5.
This will help to decide what channel and time to broadcast my soap opera on to be the most effective as possible. This needs to be finished by monday.

Thursday 4th December

We had a single lesson today and our group completed most of our presentation for the pitch on monday. It was hard to decide about our title sequence as we hadnt really planned this stage yet, however we decided to base it on the Hollyoaks's title sequence as this is aimed at a young audience, like our soap. We will finish off the presentation over the weekend and run through it before mondays lesson.

Wednesday 3rd December

Today, we have completed quite a lot of work which i am pleased about. First, in period 1,  i continued with my channel research. I have now completed BBC ONE, BBC TWO, ITV1 and Channel 4 so i started my research for channel 5. I hope to get this completed by Fridays lesson so all the channel research will be completed by then. 

For 2nd, 3rd and 4th period we chose the location settings for our soaps. We then finished the character profiles as our final copy. We finalized the summaries of the 4 storylines we were going to use. We realized we needed to add two more characters than we planned  to while writing the storylines. On top on this we managed to create the name for our soap opera.

We also started working on the presentation for our pitch on Monday 8th. We will continue this is tomorrows lesson. 

Monday 1st December

Today we moved on to finalizing storyline ideas and started to create our character profiles. This was quite difficult as it was hard to make sure we used the right amount of characters and use different stereotypes but also fit in with the storylines. Also we had to think of exiting and realistic storylines which was hard as they had to intertwine with eachother and keep the audience intersted. Although it was difficult it was fun inventing characters and storylines. We will try and complete the character profiles by the end of wednesday.
I thought today was succesful as our group managed to complete a lot of work in the lessons.

Thursday 27th Novemeber

In todays lesson i completed my channel reserach for ITV1. I made sure the three channels i have completed research on sofar( BBC ONE, BBC TWO and ITV1) were all in neat and stuck in my portfolio. Also with my group we continued bringing our ideas together as a big mindshower. This is useful in pre-production as it brings all the group's ideas together so we can use the best ideas in our project such as the storylines, themes and characters.