Reflection on Focus Group

As a group we decided on completing the final focus group. However, although this was more successful than our pilot focus group, it still didn't benefit us as much as we had hoped it would.
Our group consisted of 5 people aged between 17 and 18. They were of both genders (3 girls and 2 boys). We decided on this age group as it is our primary target audience. we started off by reading out our pitch to them, then followed by our treatment, and a rough outline of our trailer and website.

Here are the questions we asked and the most common answers:

1. Does the different approach we have, in terms of the trailer being based on one individual character and storyline, affect your perception of our soap?- no, it makes you want to watch it more, it wont confuse the audience
2. Does the trailer sound like a typical soap opera trailer, would you be inclined to watch this soap over another, already existing trailer?- it sounds more like a drama
3. With the time of the soap being 8pm, Tuesday to Thursday, would you watch this?- yes
4. How does the fact that we have a huge storyline in our first episode affect you?- it gets straight to the point
5. Are there any other comments regarding our soap?- no

After we had asked them the questions as a group we had a quick meeting to discuss how successful we think it went. The responses we received didn't benefit us as much as we thought and we have decided to re-do the exercise later on with different group of people.

My Photoshop Practice

I decided to pick one of the pictures we took, and attempt on using photoshop. i experimented with different styles of font and colour.
Im going to use my skills i have gained to help me with designing my own TV guide cover. I like the idea of it being black and white with the red lips and jacket being highlighted; we wore red clothing because it symbolised danger and it also showed us to be on one side.

Magazine ideas

On our first filming day, we took a number of photo ideas for our magazine.

-I used phtoshop to make some of them black and white to experiment on different approaches.

However, before we got used to thecold, and mastered staying in the same position for a few more seconds then we had liked we took a few pictures, which didnt prove to be as succesful.

You can see in the picture on the Left that there is a gap in between me and Natalie N, we all look fairly cold in both pictures so we decided to carry on taking more till we was all happy.

Minutes for Sixth group meeting

Discussions on General filming and ideas

Wednesday 1st December 2009

Start time: 11:00am

People present: Elena Christodoulou, Thegla Savvides and Natalie Nicolaides

• Planning ideas for our magazine covers.
• we went through all the pictures and each chose our own.
• We planned another day that we are going to meet up for filming, and we also discussed the editing process. We are planning to meet up this sunday to organise the film we have and which shots we are going to use. where then going to draw out another storyboard to make sure everything fits together perfectly and that we have enough shots for the editing stage.
• We also spoke about the music, what kind of music, theme tune we are aiming for..catchy,singing, lyrics...

Finish Time: 11:40am

My Individual analysis :)

Another thing i am challenging is the idea of taking a more formal approach with the television guide. Instead of creating one like "TV Easy" (Left) which are very basic and are sold inexpensively. I have decided to go for a more formal and realistic approach like "Radio Times" (Right).

Analysis of Radio Times magazine

-At the very top there is the website address, which is good for more information and details about the shows and competitions etc

-Below that there is the date and the price of the magazine- very formally set out

- Title stands out, bold

-Festive, front cover follows whats happening in the world (Christmas-snow)

-one main picture, covers most of the front cover, eye catching.

-Catchy Title (Who's The Doctor?) leaves audience questioning, "only in RT" persuading people to buy it to read who the doctor is.

- "exclusive previews", "Plus", "open the cover to find out who their up against.." this helps draw in more potential readers.

-Its main emphasis is on Doctor Who, it has slight advertisement of other programmes on the side but they are not very eye catching in comparison to Doctor Who.

EVALUATION

Analysing different front covers will help us to decide what we think will be the most beneficial. i like this fact that its festive, relating to contemporary seasons, i like the idea there is exclusive previews and interviews to draw in readers attentions. we can take alot from this, and help make our radio magazine cover just as succesful.

Interview Speech And Questions

During our first filming day, we filmed an interview scene where some of the cast were asked a few questions about their character.
Here are the questions that were asked:

Here today i am joined with some of the cast from the new soap 'I.V'

1. So, 'I.V' thats an unusual name for a soap, where did the idea come from?
2. So would you say that the lives of these characters get manipulated and changed throughout the outcoming episodes?
3. So, Thegla you play the character of 'Andrea', tell me about her.
4. So how would you say that 'Chloe' influences her?

A question for you all...

7. What makes your soap different to other contemporary soaps?
8.There are alot of soaps already out on tv, how are you hoping to attract the viewers fior yours?