Soap Opera Logo Designs

We felt that it would be more beneficial for the audience if the soap actually had some sort of logo. This would mean that the soap would be easily recognised and also would give the soap opera more of a background and make it more personal. To create the logo, each person in our group researched logos and titles individually. We then created individual logos and brought them together. After looking at the designs, we put all of the ideas together and created a new title for our soap.

Mill Lane Soap Title Designs

Scott Collins

These are the two designs i choose to show our group as potential candidates for the final soap opera logo design. The top one is more traditional and would appear to an older audience. The second one i think would appear more to a day time elderly audience. Both have not got the potential to recruit the wide range audience members we desire and therefore cannot be chosen. Also, the sign is more closely linked to a bread company logo than that of a soap opera. Confusing the audience.

Charlotte Morison

Devon Dalton

Emily Wallace

Final Idea

We simply made our logo by adding a picture of a street sign to a certain font. The font we found was 'PCMyungio' and we have chosen it because it's very simple and easy to read but also give a rural feel as well as an intelligent side. We have used a street sign that is similar to another soap, this is because we know it works well an an existing product and easily recognisable.

Emily Wallace

Channel Logo Designs

We wanted to create our own TV channel logo rather than using an existing one, to help advertise both the soap and the new channel within the same trailer. Each member of the group made two logos for our channel 'Decs'. Then we evaluate each others work and chose a plan to create into the final product.

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Scott Collins

I got inspiration from various existing TV channel logos. My favourite is the bottom one, however, it may be immature for the soap opera we are presenting. The other ome is more grown up, yet, seem to be lacking the professional factor of channels which present soaps such as BBC and ITV.

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Charlotte Morrison

This is my chosen design for our channel logo. I used a greyscale colour scheme so that the logo can easily be applied to any frame in our trailer and the bubble writing within the smaller rectangle connotes youth and creativity, showing that our channel broadcasts shows for all the family - including our soap opera. This is also demonstrated with the outline of the logo as it fades similarly to a pencil line connoting our channel's ability to adapt to the market and produce new, creative shows.

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Emily Wallace

These are two of the logos I have made to show to the group. For the first idea, I used a plain font but inverted the colours. I then made the front of the font a different colour to the original black and white as it gives it more depth. I have chosen red because its an eye catching colour and stands out a lot. I then went on to create another. I prefer the second design as it is more interesting. It can also be put on all sorts of backgrounds and the colours could be inverted.

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Devon Dalton

 I have created a black and white logo and inverted the colours to create a second version. I kept the design of the logo very simple and basic so it doesn't cause confusion or look to complicated for a logo that is representing a channel. The font is the most detailed part of the logo and makes the design more  memorable. I chose to use the colours black and white as they would fit in with the black background and white writing we will be using at the end of our soap opera trailer.

Rough Poster 1

Scan 0001

By creating a rough poster we could sketch out the design we wanted whilst recognising the faults and errors which we did not want to bring to our final produced poster. One error that was noted swiftly was the level in which each character was placed. For example, if you look at the feet of each character they are of different angles/levels/heights which give unfair perceptions of the characters' appearances which could confuse the audience. To avoid this, we will have a set foot level in our final poster so all the characters can be compared, introduced and judged fairly.
We have yet decided a slogan for our poster but here and a list of a few ideas of which we are debating from…
1) Out with the old, in with the Essex
2) whatever other ones we came up with

We have not yet created our own channel name and we do not have permission to use the channel 4 logo, however, for the time being it is just an example logo. We will explore possible channel names and ideas and find one which seems to fit our soaps audience.
Another issue with the poster is that some pictures seem out of place. This is down to our fault of directing our actors correctly. The mechanic looks very unsure and is not stood straight like the other characters, you could presume this is a connotation of his confident nature but he looks odd in comparison to the other characters. The character Barry Brooker is pouting, this cannot be the facial expression for the final poster design as this character is suppose to look strict and tough. Jennifer Ward looks scared. Her character is suppose to look worried, which is linked to her storyline but this is over the top and will confuse the audience.

Scott Collins and CharlotteMorrison

Rough Magazine Cover 1

Magazine[1]

This is our first magazine cover. We created this by looking at exsisting magaiznes and what they all have in common. By including conventional magazines ideas we were able to create this cover. After creating this and reviewing it in our group we have decided that we will create another magazine cover with some more detialed pictures. By using a better camera and possibly some different backgrounds we can create a better magazine.

Emily Wallace

Trailer Rough Cut 1

This is the first rough cut for our soap opera trailer:

Rough Cut 1 Audience Feedback

To make our final cut more professional we asked a range of audience members, varying from media students to people in other professions to analyse our work telling us three positives and three negatives. The media students offered us terminology based feedback but the un-media-educated viewers offered us feedback from a more believable audience.

Rough Cut Trailer

Below are the positives:

- Good range and use of camera shots showing we have a good understanding of camera techniques

-The audience enjoyed the variety of storylines shown; capturing both their attention and imagination

-The piece is informative with a wide list of enigma coded information

-The camera angels in the car look professional shot

-Like the different settings of the piece

-Love the baby scene, with Jennifer Ward. The way character met in one shot through walking and driving then go separate directions looked impressive and professional

-Like the last shot, of Rachel Manning’s reveal  

-The costumes look good, you can tell through them each characters career

-The locations are good

-The storyline/narrative is good and well presented

Below are the negatives:

-The voice over at the end advertising the soap opera needs to be louder

-Not 100% sure about the meaning behind the storyline. However, they have ideas and are guessing which I believe is good as it will keep them interested

-Unrealistic sound effects

-The music is annoyingly frustrating

-The titles need to be more interesting

Rough Cut Poster

Below are the Positives:

-Original

-Good use of colour/decorative

-Good detail in body and facial expressions of the characters.

Below are the negatives

-Hard to read the title

-Need a slogan

-Copy right of channel four logo

-Some characters are out of the frame

-Add a soap logo

-It doesn’t make the soap seem very rural.

Rough Cut Magazine

Below are the positives:

-The left third is great!

-Title is big and easy to read

-The editing of the character, such as the cutting our process is brilliant

-Good use of colour to make the cover stand out

-Good advertising

-Good storylines

Below are the negatives:

-Text of smaller cover lines has to be enlarged.

-Middle section needs to be busier

-No barcode

-No dateline

-No timing of the show

-Colour scheme is to random

-The 45p sign looks tacky

All of the above feedback has been considered and required improvements will be applied to rough cut two.

Scott Collins

Rough Poster 2

Poster Rough Cut 2

This is our second draft of our poster. We now have HD photos and channel logos as well as a good plaque. Yet, the cutting out is still not to industry standard and we are missing four characters from the photo. To solve this issue of editing we will begin using the program 'GIMP' and will take the remaining photos as soon as possible.

Scott Collins & Charlotte Morrison