Trailers

Skins


This is the first trailer for the new television drama/soap 'SKINS'. The drama is based around 8 main teenagers with different attitudes to life and personalities. There is a mixture of genders and ethnicity within the drama, and they are all 'friends'. The drama follows issues that teenagers face and stereotypical actions that teenagers do, such as drinking, drugs and having sex. This first trailer shows us straight away what the drama is about by getting the actors to do all these stereotypical actions in a house party setting. The music and the mad atmosphere is similar of something i want to do for my soap opera. So that it will attract the audience i wish to aim my soap opera at which is young adults and teenagers. I also show some of the similar things going on as we can see in this television trailer, such as people kissing, smoking, and doing drugs.
The television series also includes stereotypical characters that would be found in a college, were the series is based around students. Theres are the stereotypical characters found in SKINS:

Chris - party animal/druggy
Tony - girl lover/ popular - in a relationship with Michelle
Michelle - Tony's girlfriend. the girly girl
Sid - the geek, virgin and obsessed with michelle.
Cassy - abit werid, suffers from an eating disorder
Jal - musican, good girl, quiet
Maxxie - gay, a dancer
Anwar - muslim boy, is critized for his selective approach to his faith.

With the variation of the characters, it allows the series to explore the issues that the individual characters face, making it much more interesting. It also may relate to the audience, as they have found themselves in a similar situation or can relate to the character as a person.
The setting and colours used within the trailer are key to the atmosphere. The house they are in seems messy and dull however the colours that the characters are wearing or are used by them highlight the characters reflecting the mood of the characters which is happy because they are having a good time with friends. It also could symbolise the youth of the characters and could suggest that the futures 'bright' for them.
In my trailer i wish to use bright colours for the same reason, and show my characters being happy setting the mood for the series.

Eastenders


I have chosen this particular Eastenders trailer because i think it gives a good introduction to the new character to the soap. The trailer features freeze frames on each character and uses non-diegetic text to introduce the names to the audience. This is what i wish to do on my own trailer, using freeze frames on featured characters in the rest of the trailer to introduce them to the audience. The use of colours goes well with the attitude the new characters bring, bring colours are used for the non-diegetic text but also the costume the characters are wearing. For my non-diegetic text, i plan to use colours that are connatated to the stereotypical characters for example the girly girl will have pink text and the footballer will have blue text. They will also refer to the gender and instantly the audience will know that the character is like by seeing the actions but also the colours used that the audience are familiar with.
The music that is with this trailer is also a happy song, and the lyrics help along with it, which sets the mood. It is also linked with the characters as the song is by the Jackson 5 and the family being introduced are 'The jacksons' and there is 5 of them.
This trailer is good because it helps introduce new characters on Eastenders without bringing them onto the soap straight away, so that the audience expect whats going to happen but also so that they are already familar with the characters before the soap characters known, creating dramatic irony.


Hollyoaks


This is the launch trailer for the soap drama 'Hollyoaks'. The trailer is short, it shows the characters within the soap all together, and even features a small story lines that gives the opportunity of showing the audience what the characters are already like. We can already see that the main blonde is good lucking, bossy and glamorous, the typical young women. the trailer also shows young men, giving variation in gender and also features people of different ethnicity.