Preparing for our soap opera clip

I haven't wrote on this for a while and our group have been quite busy preparing for our 3-5 minute soap opera clip and filming, Script has been completed although when filming a few people who got to play the roles of the characters couldn't remember the lines so they had to improvise . We have used 4 story lines in which we feel as a group would appear on a soap opera. We used different locations in which we have filled location recs and permission to film in them locations . Most important the storyboard and shot list have been created as we needed this to see what we have to shoot and the different camera shots we can use to make our soap opera effective to the audience. for a bit of research i decided to look at the Hollyoaks soap opera as i feel our soap is similar to Hollyoaks as we set our soap to the young adult audience . I had a look at the different shots and typical story lines that appear in Hollyoaks to help give some idea as to how we can make our soap opera clip professional and substantive.

Development of Script

Yesterday we started to develop our script which we would involve 2-3 storylines. We wanted to show theese characters and their sort of entertainment so we decided to start the first scene on the streets meeting with each other before going to a party. we still need to finish the script and write up another storyline , however we have an idea how to end the script. Our group have completed our character profiles and know exactly who we want to act and become the characters. Today we will finish writing the script and start thinking about filming and where our first scene is going to take place.

Developing our Soap Opera

Today we got into our groups and started to develop Characters and story lines for our soap. Our soap would be based on young adults who have dropped out of University this may be because of financial problems, lack of motivation, etc. We thought of a few characters that would represent today's young adult society in which we think would fit perfectly in our soap opera. We have also started generating idea's of possible story lines that we would like to occur in the first episode of the soap .