Saturday 28 January 2012

Soap Opera Trailer Conventions

Soap Opera Trailer Conventions include the following


- Open and Fractured Narrative .
- Final title at the end which includes the channel, time and day that the soap opera is broad casted and what it's sponsored by.

- Trailers are normally less that a minutiae long.
- A trailer only shows the best parts of the episode to attract an audience.
Short shots are shown .
- Fades and fade-to-blacks are used throughout.
Close ups, mid-shots and two-shots are mainly shown between the characters.
- Non-diegetic soundtrack is used throughout the trailer.
- Normally a voice over is played at the end which can include a tailgate.
- Lighting is dark when something negative will happen
- Costume connotes the mood, if in black something dangerous is going to happen.
Usually feature a few characters to focus on one main storyline.
- Can include multiple jump cuts to pick up pace and add dramatic tension the the trailer.


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