IDEA

Our idea that we are going to work on for our soap opera trailer is a party scenario, as this is the easiest way to introduce all of our characters in one situation without a particular reason for them all to be in one place. We are making our soap to aim and include mostly teenagers, we are making our audience teen based as we can think on our level what teenagers would want from a soap.
We are going to follow three story lines through out the party scenario uses flash backs and cut away shots. The story line ideas that we are most likely to use:
After auditions we have based and altered our characters for our idea, and here is the final idea.

• A love triangle between three people; two proud gay men, the one then wakes up in bed with a girl the morning after the party. We feel this storyline has not been looked at before in a way that we want to portray it. We have Zak, Brandon and Paige who are going to star in our trailer, we are basing each character on different characters from soaps and series, or taking an element of a character. We are basing Paige on the character Effy from skins, she is the troubled character of Skins who is idolised and has some hard hitting story lines. We are basing Zak on two different characters both from Skins. The character of Tony from series one, he is the sort of 'ring leader' of the group of friends, very cool but has an under lying evil side that we can see bubbling. We are also basing him on Freddie from series two of Skins, he again is a cool character but also very loveable. 

Effy from Skins

This is Zak, he will play our gay character.

 

This is Tony, the other character we are using to base Zak on.

This is Freddie, one character we are basing Zak on.

This is Karl who will play the Drug Dealer

• Another story line we are looking at is a Drug Dealer played by Karl. He is the 'leader' of the group of friends and the party, we are taking elements from the character Chris from series one and two of Skins, he is a 'druggie' character but very loveable, his attitude for life that he often reminds the other characters in Skins is 'F*** It' we are also basing Karl on Alo from series 5 and 6 of Skins. He is loud, funny but like the rest of the characters has underlying problems that will arise in the soap. He brings the comic relief to the dark soap we are aiming to create. We want to give Karl some one liners to shout in the trailer as we think this will fit well with the trailer and his character. One direct line that we will use that Alo says is "we are the children of the revolution'' we think this will link with our theme of our soap. 

Alo, 'funny' character.

Chris series one of skins

• Our third and final story line that we are thinking of using is the transmission of an STD. We are having our character played by Ben, after having 'relations' with Hannah (myself) (our other character) we are going to have Ben receiving a phone call, the only thing we'll hear is "the results were positive" and then we see Ben leaving to find Hannah to 'break the news.' 

We are pretty certain on our first two ideas and need to develop our third idea accordingly.