My soap is set in an uptown area called Dene View. It is full of action, happiness and tragedy. It is a very busy area with shops, hairdressers, clubs, pubs and takeaways. There are three streets of houses in my soap that would attract different people to live in them because of how big they are and how much they are worth.
When I was creating my soap I had to decide what sort of things I wanted in my soap, the different places that people would meet and also the sort of people that would live there. When I was thinking of my characters I tried to make them as interesting and as different to other characters as possible so that there was a mix of different personalities. When I was creating my storylines I thought about what I have seen in other soaps and changed it a bit so that it was part of my soap. I also tried to think up things that I had seen on the news like murders.
When I designed my magazine cover I thought up a headline that didn’t give too much away about what was happening in the soap so that they would want to pick up the magazine and read more. I also wrote a bit about how great the soap was to make people want to watch it to find out how good it actually is. Also on my magazine cover I put snippets about what else you could find in the magazine eg other programmes that are on the tv, interviews, agony aunt etc.
I enjoyed all of this activity because it was fun to do. I enjoyed creating my characters the most because I could make up any sort of person I wanted.
I least enjoyed writing the script for a scene in my soap because I couldn’t imagine what the people would look like talking to each other, the expressions they would have on there faces, the way they would say it and wether or not what they were saying sounded right.
I think my soap would be quite good at attracting my target audience because it isn’t boring and a lot is happening to keep you gripped. Also most of my characters are of the age that my target audience would be.
If I did this assignment again I would try to put in a wider range if ages in my soap, and also I would try to write a better script.