HallsA new soap opera, September 2016

The Genre• Allow our audience to identify with each

character.

• Aimed towards our own age range.

• Dramatic serial plots.

Narrative

• Pedigree College opens in Surrey.

• Appeals to a variety of different people, due to its wide range of different courses on offer

• New students, new teachers.

• How will the vast range of different characters get on.…?

Audience• Target Demographic: 14-20

• Appeal mainly to people considering university, or have an interest in relationships and drama.

• We have chosen this audience, as it is an audience we can identify with, thus will know what they want to see.

• Different audience from our AS piece.

• MTV

• Once a week

• 8 till 9, Wednesday nights.

Characters

• We will have a variety of different characters in our piece, from multiple ethnic backgrounds so the audience can identify with different characters.

The Landlord - Margret

• Female character

• Knows everything about everyone

• Trusted by the majority

Dominant Male – Jack • Confidant man

• Hit with the ladies

• Potentially a villain?

• Undergraduate Student

Comedian - Lee• Slap stick and humorous character.

• Butt of the jokes.

• Best friend of alpha-male.

• Liked by all, yet low on the hierarchy.

• Mostly present, never a main plot.

Strong Woman – Soph(ie) • Strong, independent girl.

• Potentially scared of new experience.

• Struggles to make friends.

• Concentrates hard on her studies.

The Flirt - Megan• Creates a name for herself around the university.

• Disliked by female characters.

• Liked by the boys.

• Achieved her place at uni through her father.

Lovers – Lucy and Adam

• Moved to the same university to be together.

• Not bothered by studies.

• Potentially exclude themselves from others?

The Geek - Lawrence • Studying bio-chemistry and extended computer

science.

• Secret hit with the ladies…

• Charming

• Low self-esteem

• Socially unpopular

Head of the Uni - Humphrey

• Mr Birlington

• University Don

• Son achieved a place in the uni due to his merit.

• Pedigree University was his idea.

• Wants his son to follow in his footsteps.

• Achieved a Masters at Oxford in Modern Historical Studies.

Group Summaries• The Jocks:Immature, loud, rugby playing men. Popular in the social hierarchy. (Jack fits in, Lee struggles to follow)

• The Mean Girls:Lead by Megan. Not the brightest, concerned about looks more than their education.

• The Geeks:Concentrate on their education, much, much more than their looks.

Project Outline

• Outline character relationships and context in small segments.

• Brief summary of location and setting.

• Identify target audience.

• Foreshadowing plot and future events.

Key Stories in Serial• Over the next year stories could include:

• Adam and Lucy’s eventual separation, after Adam fails to get into Pedigree.

• Lucy’s attraction to Jack – their flirtation relationship.

• Lee’s struggle to fit in with the modern and popular crowd.

• Humphrey struggles with his secret alcoholism.• Megan’s secret allure towards Lawrence.• Pressures of balancing education and

relationships.• Humphrey’s son’s rebellion, becomes a source of

frustration.• How Sophie adapts to her new environment.

Prints

Our Prints (DVD Covers and Posters)• Character lead images.

• Give an idea of context and location

• Suggest who potential plots that could take place in the series.

Finance• EastEnders’ budget is £29 Million annually.• We would work with half of this budget to finance

our great expanse of actors, our writers and to continue to fund the show for the following year.

• Shed Media• The independent production company funded

and produced Waterloo Road. We would ask for their support.

HallsA new soap opera, September 2016