Week 7 of filming and editing:

Today we filmed a new drug scene, we filmed a scene with a new actor playing the character of Jamal (Kareem's brother), we also filmed a scene with Kareem and Ameera in a good relationship so it can show a contrast when Kareem changes. We edited all the scenes, we took some of the scenes out and added new ones in. We added a Kareem voiceover to help narrate the storyline from his perspective aswel.

Week 6 of filming and editing:

After receiving our audience feedback, we decided to change some of the things that were mentioned. We went did some filming of drug scenes to help contradict Kareems good side. We edited it and it fitted in perfectly with the rest of the scenes, however our teacher thought it was too explicit. Instead he suggested that we should add a more subtle drug scene that suggests involvement in drugs. Alsp we decided that we should add a scene where we see Kareem and Ameera's relationship when it was going well.

Audience Feedback On Rough Cut

After uploading our rough cut on our blog we asked our audience for had feedback on what we can improve and, change and cut out. Our audience admired the pace of our soap trailer and the music which they thought matches well with our them. They stated that the storyline was clear, however they pointed out that the use of one actor playing two characters did not make sense. Our audience have told us they understand what's going on in the soap trailer but this has to be more specified as we don't see the badside of Kareem as much, various people have told us how we need to make this clear, irrelevant scenes need to be cut off as they're is no need for them, suggestions on different perspectives and angles of shots portraying Kareems two sides e.g Kareem putting away his prayer mat and pulling out something negative like drugs or a weapon, this will give the audience an insight of who Kareem really is by contradicting the two sides of his life. The character's dialogue in the soap trailer must be more clearer as in some of the scenes we don't get an understanding of what they're saying due to loud music. Overall the soap trailer is understandable, the music is goes perfectly with what's happening, storyline is clear but needs more detail. Our opinion is we need more effects in the soap trailer, editing needs to be tidied up along with lighting, our target is to experiment more with our editing and see the final outcome.

We decided to take this feedback out of our target audience boundaries and one of the group members Shihab Miah decided to show a family relative to see their reactions of the rough cut. Majority of feedback received were in general positive the feedback received were 'This trailer is actually quite good, i mean i would definitely watch this if this came up on TV, bearing in mind that it is a rough cut this can be made just perfect once it is finally edited'. This is the brief comment made by a family relative from an older generation from 30 - 35 this could allow us to extend out target market.

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Inspired Imagery - Split Personality

Inspired Imagery, an image that an artist produced with a splitting of a face, the artist was inspired by "Split Personality". We found this interseting as it represented the same theme of our soap and persona of our main character.

Islamic Music video influence

This is one Islamic music video which highly influenced us to put in religious acts in our trailer for this two faced character. This video has some attributes to our trailer as this person comes out to a sinful community so does Kareem. The video is showing some of the kindness and helpful acts that one of the Muslim Prophets Muhammad(SAW) had always done during his lifetime as he battles through the community which is full of sin and bad acts.

The real hustle - Editing character Motion influence

The real hustle video that we had uploaded has had influenced us into using similar shots and effects to show the different characters. Just like the Real hustle video we have decided to use stop images for each character with their names so that the audience will get to know them more. We want to use this effect with all the main characters in the soap trailer as it will give the trailer a outstanding effect from other trailers.

Prop : Prayer Mat

This is another prop that we had used, a prayer mat. Muslims use this to get closer to God by praying what is obligatory over them and extra. The opening scene starts off with Kareem praying 'Bowing down to the feet of God' this is the way Kareem repents for the sins he commits daily. The prayer mat symbolises his faith, and the sincerity he has towards his religion. Kareem doesn't take his faith with him in his outside life because of his street pride.