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I have made three more example to go onto our magazine front cover... at the moment they are just practice examples as we obviously need to test different colours and other effects but atm it looks like this>>>>>

I now need to practice editing the images so that they can over lap... for example we are going to have a shot of the couple standing togther, so i ma going to find a picture on the internet to cut out and try and work into this magazine front cover!

Plan...

We have planned our next two weeks out so that we can take the pictures of our couple and start filming, this way we can finish our magazine front ocver and focus on the filming and editing of that.

• WE are going to take pictures of our couple, hopefully tomoroow or monday


• WE are filming at location on the folowing monday or tuesday


• WE have decided on colour themes of red, or white dress for Christy, and Black or white shirt for Ben, as this is like the style for a front cover.

Baubel

We have decided to create two magazine front covers, with a few slight differences so that when it comes down to the end, we can choose a favourite or even create one from both.
I created a image from Emmerdale today, using the blur tool and Opacity in Photoshop, i created this image for one of our three original soap story lines. This is taken from The storyline of Victoria, when she fell through a iced over lake last christmas.
I tried lots of different styles, and harshness so from two different baubels i have decided to go with the lighter one as it looks better on the background of the magazine cover!

Practice Shots...

Today we spent some time taking shots of different quick and small events to give us an idea on different techniques we could use. These practise shots will be quite usefull because now we will be able to edit them together to get an idea on best visual shots such as handheld or on the tri-pod. We shot different angles of wlaking through doors and also one of our parts that we are going to have in our trailer which is the tension building bit at the end when the woman drops the birth cirtificate. WE tried different angles and we will choose the best but we did find that paper would be a problem as it doesnt fall flat so we would have to think of other ideas such as card or doubling up the layers of paper.

Story Board ideas...!!

Quick overview of shots and angles we could use
• Starting off with a black out
OR
• The advert/logo of whatever channel it is going to be shown on.
• We could start off with a through the window shot of the couple looking though the box and maybe somehow add the effect of it snowing to get a feel of the time of year!
• Maybe a close up of a wedding photo they have just picked up showing they are married.
OR
• Have a shot of pictures along the fire place. Go along the mantel to show other pictures of family holidays, etc, the mantel piece will be covered in Christmas tinsel and lights.
• Mid shot of them looking though and her picking up a piece of paper
• Move straight to a close up of her face as she realises what it is!
• Maybe then Move to him with a close up with him saying something like “what is it!”
• Then move in to a long shot (so we can see her full body) with her about to drop the paper. In this shot I’m not to sure yet of the position of the camera I have three options and want to pick the one that will have the most dramatic effect.
They are –
1. Having the women standing face on towards the camera
2. Having the women side on facing her husband and having him in the shot
3. Having rear view of the women facing her husband.


• To add to the mysterious effect the camera will then follow the paper to the ground as it drops.
• Finally finishing with a close up of the paper to she that it is a birth certificate with her husbands name on it


Music and voice over for advert
Music and voice over
• Christmas music, playing throughout the sequence
• Not to sure what song yet but we were thinking of having one which is quite slow or maybe even a Christmas carol
• Voice over examples:
• “Christmas is a time for family, but you never quite know who that might be”
• “Christmas is a time for family, however they might be closer than you think”
• “Christmas is a time of happiness but would you be happy?”
• “Christmas is a time of happiness but that doesn’t mean there wont be surprises”
• The voice over is going to come in quite near to the end maybe around the shot of her looking at the birth certificate before she realises what it is.
OR
• Having the voice over start when he see a picture of the wedding and then have a pause and then finish when it’s the shot of the birth certificate

We don’t have to decide on any of this just yet though as the music and voice is one of the last things to add. And we don’t have to add this until the whole thing has been edited