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Unit 6 - PowerPoint Notes - Task 2
1. Unit 6 Needwood Task 2
PowerPoint Notes
SLIDE 1 - Setting and Main Meeting Place
It is centred around the village pub, church, school, shop and a row of houses on the main road
where all the characters meet on a daily basis. The narrative is the daily lives of the village.
SLIDE 2 - Characters
Howard and Jane Kingsley
White British
Early sixties
Own and run the Shoulder of Mutton public house
Jane
Endearing and loves to organise fetes, shows and quizzes
Friendly
Helpful
Involves the community
Smartly dressed
Takes pride in her appearance
Howard
Gentle soul
Kind
Thoughtful
Likes to help people
Smartly dressed
Slightly hen-pecked by Jane but he secretly likes the way she fusses over him
SLIDE 3 - Jess and Toby Braxton
Grandchildren to Howard and Jane Kingsley
Live at the public house whilst their parents travel with their jobs
White British teenagers
Attend the local school
2. Jess
Fifteen
Easily impressionable
No ambition
Mixes with the wrong crowd
Toby
Seventeen
Studying A-levels
Mixes with the wrong crowd
SLIDE 4 - Ernest Roland Cromwell
Eccentric
White British male
Fifties
Lives in large house in the village
Wears checked trousers, shirt and bowtie
Retired surgeon/consultant
Written countless books in his medical field
Loves to drink
Chat to people
Life and soul of the village
Happy go lucky
Highly intelligent
Kind
Wealthy
Loves telling stories
SLIDE 5 - Anna Harding
Owner of the local shop and lives above
Shop hub of the community
Black British widow
Early thirties
Homely
Neighbour next door appeal
3. Dressed smart/casual in jeans, boots and tops
Takes pride in her appearance
SLIDE 6 - Colin McNeil
Head teacher at the school
White British
Early forties
Homosexual
Smartly dressed
Wears a suit at work
Knows all the children’s names off by heart
Wants children to achieve the best that they can
Easy to get along with
Casual attitude towards the children
Respected and well-liked by everyone
SLIDE 7 - Location
Small village in Staffordshire
Based on a real village
Portray the lives of the people within the village
Middle class and lower middle class (BC1)
SLIDE 8 - Clothes
Smart casual wear
Symbolic clothes to show audience personality - such as Ernest’s bowtie
Notes
Individual fashion and appearances for characters to trigger audience into an opinion on what they
think of the individuals. Hopefully they shall like the characters and continue to watch the soap.
SLIDE 9 - Target Audience
Mass market
Mainstream soap
Contain a mixture of youth, adult and senior characters to entice audience
Many targeted at females
Also suited to older males
All religions – church in village but only as background conversation
4. Notes
Countryside views, luxury family cars, mainly above average houses and local public house would
attract older male population.
It will have a mild element of religion as it will show the local church but would not focus on this, so
as not to offend anyone. It will be more of a background conversation within the soap.
It shall include social problems that the viewers can relate to, for example relationships and family
life.
According to YouGov website below, the target audience for Emmerdale is female aged 55 or over
and for Waterloo Road its females aged 18-24 years old. In both cases these soaps are taking
females.
SLIDE 10 - Budget
£100,000 per episode
10.4 Million a year
Notes
Emmerdale is £125,000 but Needwood has less actors, so £100,000 would be realistic. (Source
Radio Times article)
Advertisements
Notes
Emmerdale receives £400 million per year in revenue. Their main sponsor being McCain chips at
£8 million over two years.
5. SLIDE 11 - Visual style
Outside shots on location
Inside shots in the studio
Chocolate box
Focus on main road
Symbolic buildings
Notes
Outside shots of the public house, school, church, houses on the main road and the shop. All the
inside shots shall be in the studio. It shall have a chocolate box, country style theme to it with a
main road centred in the soap with all the symbolic buildings running from it.
SLIDE 12 - Narrative style
Sequential/Linear
Multi-strand – tells more than one story at a time
Needwood - Emmerdale meets Waterloo Road
Familiar storylines
Formal language
Focus on female viewers and housewives with children
Contains teenage storylines
Symbolic buildings
Homely/countryside title sequence
Focus on main road and surrounding key buildings
Open endings
Notes
Familiar storylines to bring the whole audience together regardless of their social class
The language is formal as its reflecting on day to day life mainly focusing on female viewers and
the dialogue is presented to ensure the viewers are there to watch.
Younger viewers would listen to characters talking about love hair, jewellery, make up, clothes and
to gossip with their friends. This shall then make the characters relatable to other women watching
the programme.
Shoulder of Mutton public house, local shop and the school shall all be the main symbolic
buildings within the soap, to bring the viewers together from the different communities watching
the soap, as they can relate to a public house, school and shop, as they probably have one nearby
to them.
6. The title sequence is homely and portrays the countryside with opening shots of the trees and the
use of panning in and out of shots for the road and houses, which invites the viewers to tune in. A
variety of camera shots are used especially close ups and point of view shots in soaps, so the
viewers can sense emotion and the body language from the characters.
It shall also have open endings at the end of each episode and the storyline shall ensure they are
left open, so the next episode can continue on with the narrative of where the previous episode
has left from.
SLIDE 13 - Genre
Drama, soap
Length
It shall be shown twice a week for 30 minutes.
Slot/Main Competitors
BBC1 at 7pm
Emmerdale on every weekday
SLIDE 14 - Bibliography
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), (2016), Available from: www.bbc.co.uk [Accessed 28th
June 2016]
Broadcaster’s audience research board (BARB), (2016), ‘Weekly viewing data. Available from:
http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-viewing-summary [Accessed 27th June 2016]
Channel 4, (2016), Available from: www.channel4.com [Accessed 28th June 2016]
Channel 5, (2016), Available from: www.channel5.com [Accessed 28th June 2016]
ITV.com, (2016), Available from: www.itv.com [Accessed 28th June 2016]
Netflix, (2016), Available from: https://www.netflix.com/browse [Accessed 28th June 2016]
Sky, (2016), Available from: www.sky.com [Accessed 28th June 2016]
TV.com, (2016), Available from: www.tv.com [Accessed 28th June 2016]
Wikipedia, (2016) ‘NRS social grade’ Available from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRS_social_grade [Accessed 27th June 2016]
7. YouTube, (2016) ‘EastEnders Christmas scene’ Available from: https://youtu.be/f949uafKpCc
[Accessed 28th June 2016]