I have produced an example of what our idea would look like... this is a present that i have blurreda picture over the top of. I would write a caption across this such as "Love is the best present at christmas" and we could have a slogan towards the top of the magazine saying something along the lines of love at christmas, so that we get an idea of the themes in the soaps. >>>>>

After looking at the magazine We Love Telly (shown below), i have been trying to think of other ideas for how to present our other original soaps, like the baubel idea i have found several different christmas icons, some that would be perfect such as the christmas stocking, others quite hard like the angel face for example. But these are just ideas as we want ti to look original.

Out of the Tens of Teaser Trailers that we looked at our favourite one was this Eastenders trailer. It has the best kind of ideas that matched ours with the voice over and fading in and out of focus.

These are two examples of our title page... one in BLACK and one in WHITE, we both created one as it is a vital part to our magazine.

This image (>>>>>>) is a good example of how we are thinking we would like ours to loook like, we like the white big, bold writing that is at the top of the page. WE used this idea to help create our own magazine title. WE know have our finished title for the magazine. Once we have our pictures taken from our scene then we can start to create the presentation for the front page!

The use of christmas icon (baubles) for the picture places is very unique and is a good idea for us to work on. Also the snow in the background.

Looking at exsisting tv magazines... christmas editions you can see similar patterns like their normal title but with christmas icons around, christmas slogans and all sorts of different christmassy colours. these are a few examples:

It tok me several hours this morning trying out different software to help me create our magazine. I am using Photoshop and Illustrator, using photoshop we came up with this design that will be our title of the magazine... I chose the font and using photoshop merged the images so that they over lapped to create this christmas themed picture.
PROBLEM: I am finding it really hard to user the software as i have never really understood how to use it... i cant get it to do things that i wnat it to.. but now that we have our title we can start to add the colour and pictures of the other soaps, with slogans of storylines.

THESE THREE PICTURES ARE EXAMPLES OF WHAT THE TITLE COULD OOK LIKE WITH CHRISTMAS ICONS ONTOP OF THEM!! EVEN THE BASIC CHANGES LIKE WHAT t THE XMAS HAT IS ON COULD MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE!

TV TALENT!

These are a few of the ideas that we have come up with for font styles for our magazine cover... AS we are doing a christmas edition we are going to photoshop some sort of festive icon such as a xmas hat or holly or something like that....

Decisions.... Decisions... Decisions...

We have decided on who is going to act in our soap opera, it is going to star two students from my Alevel drama group. We now need to decide on some sort of script, place of shooting and all the sorts of props and things we need to be in the background.
Name: The Valley
Setting:Living room of a house, that is filled with boxes of things that might belong to an elderly person such as orniments, pictures of the war etc.
Actors: Ben Dowling and Christy Grimes
Tv magazine name: Tv Talent!
Now that we have everything sorted we can start by creating some sort of script and begin filming... Once we have the trailer for the soap sorted w can use the clips to take still shots to put on the tv magazine and also on the poster.

our teacher has just made us realise that there is already a tv magazines called TV TIMES! so we need to reconsider what we call our magazine...

Our third part of the project is to create a poster for the soap, but atm a PROBLEM is tht we cant find any exapmples...??!!??!!??!

Tv magazine...

I have been looking at ideas for the second part of the project which is creating a tv magazine that has got pictures from our soap and exsisting soaps, so i have looked at different styles of font for the title, i used TV TIME as an example for the font types. AS we are picking a chritmas theme for the soap, the tv magazine will have to have chritmas themes on the front cover too...

Story line ideas...

WE have come up with several storyline ideas now that we have looked at exsisting trailers... there are the obvious ones like
1)Whos the father of the baby
2)Affairs
But we thought that we wanted something less obviuos and something that is rarelly done on exsisting soaps. So we came up with the idea that a husband and wife turn out to be brother and sister. We expanded this idea to come up with the plot.

The wifes mothe rhas just died so they are clearing through her stuff, The husband and wife are searching through boxes that are lieing in her mothers house. They come across a wedding picture of the pair ( this is to make it obvious to the audience that they are married)then as they keep going through random hats and gloves etc they come across a birth cirtifcate... with the husbands name on it.

WE are thinking that we will have to have a close up on the wedding photo or invitation because we need to make it obvious that it is his name. Also we have come up with angles that we are going to use, for example for tension and a dramatic ending we are going to have the wife drop the birthcirtificate on the floor, and have a zoom in on it to see what she was staring at.

As we have just looked at original trailors we have come to the conlusion that we are going to have the trailor/ episopde based in christmas time due to the fact that all the best and exciting storylines come out at chritmas time. So we are going to use some of the ideas from exsisting trailers such as:
1) Xmas music
2) Slight voice over ex. "Who's the daddy"
3) Flash up of words, such as " loves the dad.... loves the son"

More research...

WE have decided on a stpry line for our made up soap including particular angles and visual shots, we are yet to think of a name for it, something along the lines of... THE VALLEY!! but were not quite sure. we have looked on the internet for different exsisting trailers tyo get ideas for elements such as voice overs and effects.