The document provides a summary of the opening scenes and storyboard of the BBC soap opera "Eastenders". It describes the opening credits which establish the show's location in London. The first scene shows a family home and a man sneaking out after a one night stand. The second scene introduces a well-dressed woman in a cafe who receives a threatening phone call from a shady businessman, revealing she is being blackmailed. Cinematography and mise-en-scene techniques are used to convey meaning and provide context about the characters.

1. Eastenders Story board.

2. Opening Credits It starts zooming out from the river Thames and the audience then see the O2 arena so the audience then know the soap is based in London. The sound starts with a drum and then piano music which is the soap’s code. This let’s the audience know that the soap is starting if they were to be in a different room. The title comes up ‘Eastenders’ which sets the scene more specifically so the audience know it’s set in the east end of London. This also introduces the basic information about the soap.

3. First Scene The mise en scene of the first shot shows school bags, pens and a football at the bottom of a staircase showing this is a home to a family. A male character’s feet are shown while he quietly creeps down the stairs to get his shoes suggesting he is leaving. The mise en scene of the carpet represents that the house is not wealthy as it isn’t clean and looks quite dull. The teddy on the stairs indicates there’s more than one child. As he stands upwards, the shot pans upwards to leading to the top of the stairs as he walks out the camera shot suggesting he’s leaving.

4. A middle aged, woman character is introduced just wearing a robe which she was still tying up suggesting she was naked. She then walks down the stairs showing her identity which shows she must be the mother figure of the household. The sentence she says suggests this was a one night stand as it shows the audience why the man is leaving as he’s trying to sneak away. It also shows the woman is upset by the fact he is leaving. The male character looks up then looks down in guilt telling us that he didn’t want the woman character to know he was sneaking out.

5. Second Scene A well dressed woman who looks after her appearance is introduced in a grubby cafe where her appearance contrasts with the others around her. i.e. The builders. Her jewellery and make up look like she is putting on a performance for the men as she looks like she is high maintenance with the mise en scene of the jewellery and they way she presents herself. A male character is introduced when the phone is answered who is a business man in a suit an leather chair however it seems he is involved in a dodgy business through the mise en scene of the messy, unorganised office which is also dull and shadowed. The distress shown by the woman character afer she is called a ‘prostitute’ shows she isn’t happy at all about something and lets the audience know immediately something is going wrong for her.

6. She puts her hand to her face before replying telling the audience that she is stressed and in a situation with the man on the phone that she does not want to be in. She puts her hand to her face before replying telling the audience that she is stressed and in a situation with the man on the phone that she does not want to be in. The next shot is a framed shot between two items in the office that are out of focus then the man’s in a close up focussed shot in between. This tells the audience that even though he’s laughing he’s a bad character. The shadows on the male character’s face and the darkness of this shot show that this character is a bad character and dark colours like the black in the shot are used to represent evil. The dialogue in the shot tells the audience that the woman on the other side of the phone is being blackmailed. It explains why she seems stressed when talking to the male character.