Media Soap Plan: 'Avenue'

Above is our first plan for our soap 'Avenue' one of the members from our group decided upon the name based on his road and we all decided that it was an appropriate name, the street and a few locations around it would be where our soap is set, this is similar to how the soap 'Coronation street' tells the location of where the soaps set and our soap 'Avenue is no exception. Above we have planned our target audience which we have chosen to be for a younger audience, something that appeals more to our age group, and will follow more of the 'cinematic' style of similar soap dramas such as 'Hollyoaks', being inspired of its uniqueness of focus on action codes and non diegetic music, which we plan to use for the trailer. The track itself is of the 'Dub-step' genre which we feel would be appropriate for our audience as its a popular genre among teenagers and young adults alike, it also fits the trailer very nicely. we also plan to make our trailer a bit more dynamic then an average soap by using shots such as 'dutch tilt' and techniques like the 180 degree rule. Despite this we will make certain that the majority of angle we use will be simple such as mid shots as we don't want to completely break the conventions. Above we have also brainstormed stereotypical soap locations such as 'pubs', 'markets' and 'corner shops' and tried to come up with a range of interesting characters of different classes, age groups, sexual preferences and ethnicity's to try and make our soap as realistic as we can. We have also brainstormed some conventional soap story lines that have worked with other soaps we have seen in the past which we are going to try and reinvent for our own soap. We have also discussed a few shot ideas and schedule times we can film but nothing solid as of yet.