Creating a Soap Trailer

To begin forming my own version of a soap trailer i firstly look at pre-exsisting products that would give ,e help into what mine end products should look like. i would like for my trailer to take place in a school so the setting of the college is ideal. I will be using TV Dramas such as Waterloo Road and Eastenders E20 as comparsion products.

After looking at Waterloo road i have been give the ideas of many narratives that i can follow such as a drug scene, general college life and relationship issues. I would like to hit a target audience of college students so i will be changing the setting to a college one rather than a school one. This means that i will also have access to actors and will be able to put them in situations that may arise in there daily lives.

Costume: I would like the actors to be in things that there character would normally wear so Jake may be in more chavvy clothes than say Kelly whom of which may be more upper class. This will give the audience an impression of what that characters are like without them actually getting to know there personality.

Location: We would like our trailer to be shot in and around the college buildings, we will used a number of different locations such as the canteen, a classroom and on the exterior.These will enable our audience to establish what kind of show they will be watching.

Props: We will not be using many props as the actors are our main prop. We will use marking materials such as essays for Mr Stevens to mark also we will have some cling film filled with sugar with some money for a drug scene.

Actors/ Actresses: The people we will be using are from our college and have studies drama or theatre studies at a previous time. we will use costume to enable us to make there charachters lifestyle more prominent. Mr Stevens will be in more smarter dress of a teacher as it will portray to the audience a sense of power.