This document discusses planning for a trailer for a soap opera called "Freshers" with three storylines: 1) A drug storyline where Monica's boyfriend Grimmers pressures her into taking drugs. 2) A storyline where JP struggles to come out as gay to his friend Sophie. 3) A storyline where sisters Hal and Shad have a conflict that results in Hal running away from home. It provides details on the shots planned for each storyline and costumes assigned to characters, such as dark clothes for Grimmers to convey danger and scruffy clothes for Hal to indicate she is homeless. Character descriptions and props are also outlined.

1. PLANNING OUR TRAILER

2.  Convey narrative quickly
 Text has to be catchy, play on words and short because people won’t look at them for a long period of time, stereotypes build expectations
 Lighting, editing and mise en scene can also tell story
 Billboard posters should have channel, TV, show name, hash tag, website
 Text helps tell the story line
 Hollyoaks: Example poster
 More glamorous than usual soaps (Glamour over realism)
 Characters are younger and more attractive for a change
 Shows a before/after picture
 Gossip Girl: Example poster
 Messy haired young girl with male shows she quite promiscuous
 Makes younger teens want to watch it and rebel against their parents from the text
 “popularity has its price” shows its set in school and is important in American schools to be popular
 “Every parent’s nightmare” – shows narrative of a girl and is obviously going against her parents
 Lighting is focused on the girls facial impression
 Ugly Betty: Example poster
 Before and after picture shows the change in the character from the person in the show
 Jumper in the left image shows that she is Spanish from her Spanish jumper/poncho
 Glasses and braces shows it’s the same girl
 Goes from dressing badly with manic smile to well dressed with a normal smile suggesting she may be happy and successful and socially acceptable now
 Name of the programme, when it’s on, and institution names at the button.
 Skins series 1 trailer:
 Stereotype over exaggerated about drunken teenagers at a house party
 Words “SKINS” can relate to sex and drugs from the rizzler paper
 Feather boa and sunglasses with bright colours shows they’re all having fun
 Lighting looks like a flash from a camera as if someone has just taken the picture or messy youth
 Playing on the fear of teenagers
 Skins series 2 poster:
 Darker lighting shows change of the mood and narrative
 What happened after the party
 Name of show, date time and institution
 Intersexual references to the audience
 Slouch shows she’s distressed

4. DRUG STORY – Story
Board 1:
This story includes myself playing
the role of Monica and Sam
playing the role of Grimmers.
Grimmers is Mon’s boyfriend and
is being persuaded into taking
drugs against her own will, this is
affecting their relationship as Mon
becomes weak and is displayed
through out the shot types as she
backs away from her boyfriend.

5. SEXUALITY – Story
Board 2:
The gay story line includes Sophie
playing the roll of Soph and Josh
playing the role of JP.
This story line is about JP
struggling to come out with his
sexuality of being gay. There is a
slight shock and struggle of
Sophie's understanding to this
which clearly affects JP.

6. RUN AWAY STORY –
Story Board 3:
This storyboard includes Harriett
playing the role of Hal and Shadia
playing the roll of Shad.
Our third story line was the
conflict between two sisters which
resolved in one running away and
leaving home, leaving her sister at
home alone, confused and
shocked.

7. Above is a photograph of the written
shots that we chose to take on the
camera when filming the trailer for
our soap opera FRESHERS. Myself and
my group carefully planned what
shots we would use in the three
separate story lines that we chose to
further to use for the final trailer.

8. JOSH (JP)
•Make up (bright colours)
•Glasses
•Tight clothes
•Geeky glasses
We decided to put Josh in these clothes to stereotype him so the audience automatically pick up on his sexuality.
SAM (Grimmers)
•Cap to shadow face
•Dark clothes
•Hoody
•Make up under eyes to darken
Sam wears dark clothes to connote danger and it creates dark atmosphere when the shot is on him because of the
dark colours.
HARRIET (Hal)
•Big over sized coat
•Holdall bag (stuffed with pillow)
•Scarf
The scruffy look creates a homeless look to Harriett’s character and giving her a big holdall makes it clear to the
audience that she’s running away.
MONICA (Mon)
•Jeans
•Casual white t-shirt/top
•Hoody
The use of the colour white within Monica’s outfit connotes innocence when Sam pressures her into taking the drugs.
SOPHIE (Soph)
•Everyday casual
We kept Sophie wearing casual everyday clothes so the audience are directly drawn to Josh.
SHADIA (Shad)
•Jogging bottoms
•Scruffy t-shirt
This creates the realism in the shot of Shadia also showing the audience she lives there.

9. Holdall – Monica
Mobile Phones – Shadia & Harriett
Make up – Sophie
Sweeteners – Sam