Location & General Planning

My main location for my soap opera trailer is the college as a planned my soap opera to be inside a college in hull so that i could get the teenager characters I wanted. The footage of the characters is located within Wyke College.

The beginning setting of my trailer is set throughout the city of Hull. Shooting landmark like the humber bridge, and iconic buildings such as The Deep,St Stephens Shopping Centre and Hull Paragon Station. I did this so that it would set the scene and audience's may recognise the setting.

The Deep & St stephens

Shooting Schedule & Plan of Shots

Shooting Schedule
I plan to shoot my footage at college so that I get the right location, but also it allows me to cast the right characters that I want for the trailer. The planning and research will take place over the first months, for example in october,november, and december so that I can let the cast know when they will be needed. I plan to start filming during more nicer days, when the weather is good because the nicer weather creates a happy atomosphere which I want so this means February & March.

Plan of shots

1. Firstly the shots of Hull and the iconic places in Hull (Hull paragon station,st stephens, hull truck, queens gardens, the deep and lastly the Humber Bridge (the main icon of hull).
2. By the use of a sound bridge I will introduce the characters by the stereotypical actions, for example, the young couple kissing, the geek eating a sandwhich, and the bad girl smoking ect. This will be done for all the stereotypical characters I plan to feature in the trailer.
3. Then I will do freeze frames for the characters for example - action - freeze frame - continue action. This will allow me to introduce the characters by name during the freeze frames.
4. After the last character is introduced it will go back on to the humber bridge at the other side, the title will come up, the date, channel and time, closing the trailer.

Health & Safety considerations

Health and Safety

Because I plan to film during college times there is many health and safety aspects to consider. By the use of props and actions I had to think about what would be suitable, and what was the best way to make sure it was safe, but presentable. These are the health and safety problems I took into consideration.

• When filming Hull, I have to make sure that the person driving was reliable, and has a full driving lisence so that I am not put into any danger, and also make sure that I wont be distracting the driving by filiming.
• The shots of the two girls fighting, I have to make sure that they are knowledgable of how to 'pretend' to fight, learnt in drama classes. I will have to cast someone within the college that has learnt the technique so no one gets hurt.
• The shots of the girl smoking, is already a smoker and to make sure that I film within a designated smoking area, therefore doesnt effect the health of others and doesnt cause damage to the surroundings.
• And other aspects such as cables, making sure they are not going to cause hazards, like tripping over, ect.
  

Prop and Cast list

Cast list
Jonny Kelly - the gay
Emily Potter - the geek
Jack Waller - sporty
Lousie Baker - bully
Krystina Cole - rebel/smoker
Kristy Deakin- girly girl
Emma & Mark - young couple

Prop list
Jonny as himself
Emily - sandwiches and paper
Jack - a ball/ or something to kick
Krystina - a cigarette
Kristy - lip gloss and mirror

Characters

Characters
My soap opera trailer will feature both genders, and will use stereotypical characters of teenagers within a setting such as a college or school.

For example:
sporty person,
a girly girl,
a rebel,
a young loved - up couple,
a geek,
a gay,
a bully/ or someone 'ruff' - fighting

I will show these stereotypes by the use of stereotypical actions.
Such as:
sporty person - kicking a football, or playing some sort of sport
girly girl - surrounded by boys, or appling make-up
a rebel - smoking or doing drugs
a yound loved-up couple - kissing passionatly
a geek - sat in a toilet, looking at work sheets
a gay - laughing and joking
a bully - causing fights and being aggressive

Synopsis & Animatric

My soap opera will be set in Hull nowadays, and will be about the life and struggles that the people have in Hull. It will be mainly about teenagers in Hull and will be set in a college or school.
My trailer will show the setting, by an establishing shot, then i will show clips of the characters from clips that would be in the whole soap opera, then after showing these, i will then do freeze frames of the characters which will allow me to introduce the characters by name using non diegetic text. I also plan to have theme music of my own, which needs to be recognisable and catchy for a soap opera.

My Soap Opera

To promote and advertise my new soap opera, i am going to be creating a trailer. My Trailer will start with an Ident with theme music, so that audience can recognise this new soap straight away. Then i plan to show clippings from the soap opera using actors, of what is to come in the new episodes. This will also allow me to show the characters appearances, personalities, actions and establish the stereotypes. After showing clippings, i will introduce the characters individually by using name tags and end shots of each character.