Soap Opera Planning

As a pair, hannah and I researched many Soap Opera TV trailers so we could get inspiration in creating our own. We found many creative trailers so we were inspired by making our own very creative and interesting. We came up with an idea of basing our TV trailer on five themes. We chose themes that would target our target audience and even a wider audience due to the way we are going to produce our trailer. We have decided to only show a small glimpse of each theme we are going to include so it really teases the audience.
The themes we have decided to include are:

• Love
• Betrayal
• Hate
• Mistakes
• Death

throughout the trailer, we have decided to only capture a few moments of the themes so we don't give too much away to our audience. By doing this, hopefully we will be able to get a broader audience as no one will know what is going to happen in the TV programme. Each theme will be shown as very eye-catching.
Only showing a small glimpse of the drama that is going to be happening in the programme itself, really shows that we have researched and watched how TV drama trailers are shown. Watching TV trailers of TV dramas has really helped us as they tease the audience a lot and really leave the audience wanting to know more. Therefore, the dramas will be gain more of an audience during the week.

We wrote down in note form some brief ideas of what we would like to for each theme in the trailer.

• Love- We have decided to involve a male and female holding hands in public or sharing a affectionate kiss in public on the cheek.
• Betrayal- Will feature a character walking into a bedroom seeing their friend with her boyfriend/partner. We decided to add certain camera shots in this theme to create more of a dramatic affect. We decided to create a close-up of the character's hand opening to door of the bedroom and then a zoom onto the piles of clothes on the floor. As the theme we have chosen is a bit 'too close for comfort' we figured we could use any figures in the bed, as If we were to add a male and female in a bed together and show faces, it would be hard to find people who would want to act this out for us, so we decided to just put anyone in the bed as long as it shows clearly two figures and show no faces. We have planned to shoot this at my house as we are going to take it in turns at each other's houses.
• Hate- Even though many dramas include violence, we have decided not to do this so we are going to film Hannah's sister Gemma throwing a photograph of her best friend or boyfriend into a fireplace. We decided to add another close up in this theme on the photographs burning in the fire. We have planned to do this at Hannah's house as we are using her sister for this theme. 
• Mistakes- We thought it would be hard to come up with an idea for this theme as we can't really film a mistake. So we have decided to keep it simple and film a girl sitting on a toilet looking upset, distraught and angry with herself.
• Death-For this final theme, again we didn't want to show anything violent so we have decided to film two characters (possibly siblings) to stand in front of a grave stone in a graveyard staring blankly and showing a little saddness.