On the 16th December 2016 I filmed a little section of my soap opera advert with Molly Bishop (who plays Melody Blake) and Pixie Clinton (who plays Justine Webber). This was the scene of Melody getting very upset about everything in a school toilets and overdosing on medication in order to commit suicide, Justine (her close friend) then finds her collapsed. However as I am reversing my whole advertisement, this means this scene is obviously in reverse too.
In order to make it feel more reversed too and give it a quirky, but not disturbing feel, I've also trailed reversing music along side the footage. For this trail I used Riverside by Agnes Obel, I will not be using this as the background music for my real soap trailer but is useful to see what feel it gives it. Riverside by Agnes Obel is a sad song, it focuses on somebody going to a riverside by themselves.
I am hoping to include music I have produced myself in my soap opera trailer but it is good to have a rough idea of at least the genre of music I want to produce, to then put into reverse in my real thing.
Sound effects
The occasional 'turntables scratch'-noise I think works well. This is by chance it's fallen in this version as this is the genuine noises produced when filming and how they've sounded after reversal. They echo to the audience that what they're watching is reversed, which I think is important to reiterate to the viewer as that's a key point to this trailer and makes it most memorable.
NOT ALL OF THIS FOOTAGE WILL BE IN REAL SOAP TRAILER
This is 50 seconds long, not all of this footage will be used in the real one, realistically more 15-20 seconds. There is too much of 'Melody' crying, also the first of the tear rolling back into her eye didn't work as well so will probably only keep the second. It would be good if it was clearer when 'Melody' takes the tablets in reverse. Also I've used the 'Westview High' as a divider in this just to cut up the section where she is actually unconscious, with the scene were she's in the process of committing suicide. However I am happy with the first section that includes 'Justine'.
