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Mark Ollie Edgar

Our Soap Pitch

‘Heartbreak United’



ChannelWe have decided to produce our soap opera for

Channel 5. Channel 5 do not currently have anEnglish soap on their channel so we have seen a

gap in the market that needs filling. Channel 5

currently have shows like Neighbours and Home

and away showing on there, we feel that channel 5’saudience need a British soap that they can relate to.

We have decided to choose channel 5 as currently

94% of all UK households can receive Five, which is

around 54.3m people. This is a massive

demographic so we would be able to reach to many

different people, but our target audience is

predominantly male 16-45, but we feel we could

have a small female audience too.



Channel 5 Channel 5 currently have two foreign soaps which are

the Australian ‘Neighbours’ and ‘Home and away’.

Both of these soaps gather a massive audience of all

ages who tune in regularly to catch up on their

twisting storylines. We want to create a soap which will look interesting

and new to this audience, and also be more focused

at the male audience.



The Brief

We have decided to choose the Soap Opera projectbecause we all feel that our abilities would be best suitedfor it instead of the alternative projects.

If we were to do the Documentary Project, we wouldhave to narrow down the type of documentary and carry

out a lot of research into the topic we would bediscussing and we could not find a topic that all three ofus enjoyed, and knew enough about to create adocumentary.



The Brief In our Foundation Portfolio’s (AS) most candidates

lacked in certain areas of work at different points in

the project.

For example, I (Edgar) did not do enough research

and planning into the kind of Mise en Scéne that wasrequired for our film, as we were producing a

detective crime drama and so as a result our film was

not as believable and realistic as it should have been.



The Brief For the Advanced Portfolio we intend to go further into

depth with my research and planning particularly for

the realism of our work.

All three members of our group were originally from

different groups for the Foundation Portfolio which wefeel will work to our advantage as we have all learnt

from our mistakes of last year and intend to work on

these for our soap.



Title of Soap

We have decided to create a Locker Room soap.

This soap will be from a different angle that the presssee and will be from the point of inside the club and

all the affairs that happen.

We gave our soap the title of ‘Heartbreak United’ as

a way to merge the emotional problems going on inthe club with the outside, press supported view of

the club.

We came up with the name early on in our

brainstorming process and it stuck with us ever

since.



Title of Soap ‘Heartbreak Utd’

This soap will be from a different angle thatthe press see and will be from the point of

inside the club and all the affairs that happen.

The team will be a U18 team but at achampionship side level club. The club is

called ‘Staines Town Saints’

We thought for a while over how we could

make our soap work, at first we were thinkingof doing the first team of a championship side,

but we realised it would be less realistic when

we came down to casting the soap, and the

age group that is easily available to us.



Narrative For Soap



Themes

The themes of soap opera are

all very dramatic. The target

audience for soaps being

aimed at housewives to listen

to during the day, meant that

the dramatic storylines gave

these women something to

gossip about with each other.

Across all of the most popularsoaps in Britain all have the

same recurring themes. The

themes themselves have

developed over time. This could

be down to the change in theosition of women in societ



The usual themes of Soapopera’s include: Marriage,Divorce, Affairs and Deceit.Like most Soap Opera’s, ourmain themes will be highlydependant on the storylinesthat are presented, but we

can expect to see; Lust,Greed, Love, Hate andViolence and the majorreoccurring themes.

For our soap we have based

it around a football team asubject that would probablyattract a predominately maleaudience; but by using thesame themes as the standardsoaps we can also attract afemale audience to our

programme.

Themes



Settings

The settings in soaps varydepending on country. In BritishSoaps there are various differentareas soaps are set in, but

nowadays a lot more soaps arebeing set in the south ofEngland especially London. Themost popular settings include:Pubs, Salons, houses,newsagents, police stations.

It is vital to have a communalmeeting place. This is a placethat all different members of theshow can meet in one place,allowing flow across storylines.

An example of this being the

‘Queen Vic’in Albert Square inEastenders.



Settings

For our soap we have decided it is vital for us to havea communal area.

We put a lot of thought into the different places wecould have this area, originally thinking the lockerroom, but we then put a lot of thought into that andrealised that it is unlikely that the WAG’s would beallowed in there, making it impossible for all membersof the cast to meet in one place.

Setting our soap around a football team our mainproblem will be trying to create a setting that is uniquebut also maintains the identity of being a soap operawhich is why we have decided the communal area isgoing to be a pub/bar.



Soap Stock characters There are certain types of characters that can be seen

to be common among many soaps:

The grandparent figure: A wise old person,usually female. This character helps others with theirproblems with advice and support. In EastEnders' This

character is Dot Branning. The strong woman: An independent, powerful,

aggressive woman. She can usually be found at thecentre of conflicts Eg. Peggy and Sharon Mitchell.

Tough guy: A male character that manipulates

others to his own ends. Often the stock 'baddie'. Thischaracter may become softened over time, and thisoften leads to him becoming the comic relief of the soap.Examples include Phil Mitchell on EastEnders.



Young couple: A couple that bravely face the

difficulties of life, through their own, serious

relationship problems. Feisty young female: A

strong-willed girl, almost always young, who

desires independence. She is usually

argumentative and miserable. Eg Alfie and Kat

Moon

Troublesome oldie: An older, grumpy,meddling, interfering character, always with

his/her nose in everyone else's business. For all

his/her faults this character is still loved for his/her

generally good intentions. Eg. Peggy Mitchell



Our Characters will all revolve

around the team ‘Staines

Town Saints’

Although the team on the field

play well together, there is a

lot of conflict amongst them in

the locker room.

Some players like to stay to

themselves and keep quiet but

they are ‘Dark Horse’s’ and

often sleep around with other

WAG’s.

Players are in constant conflict

over who will make the starting

11 as they all want a shot and

one day play in England’s

greatest league, the premier

league.

Characters



Possible Storylines New player in the team kisses

the captain’s Wife.

Team have a game in themorning but two of the playersare seen out at 4am drunk.

Star player is caught having anaffair with Managers daughterand they get into a fight at halftime.

Player has rough time findingform so turns to steroids, hismood changes to angry and hetakes it out on his wife.

• Affairs with the chairman’s wifeand arguments between

players.• Rivalries between different

players of who is going to bepicked for the next game.

• Old ‘hero’ being shown up by ayoung 17-year old player.

• Transfer season and a heatedchanging room of who is leaving

and who isnt.



4. Sub- Genre Our Stock Narrative will be based upon what goes

on behind closed doors. All the things that go on in a

Championship Football Club that don’t get released

to the public, focusing on the Youth Team (the future

of the Club). From Sexual Affairs to which playersare getting picked for the next game.

We can expect to see rivalries between players over

personal grudges, unexpected plot twists to shock

our audiences.



4. Sub- Genre

All three group members are fans of football so

when it comes to Iconography, we should all

have a reasonably good idea of what needs to

be included in a Locker Room set, as well as thetraining ground.



4. Sub Genre-Themes

Like most Soap Opera’s, our main themes will behighly dependant on the storylines that are

presented but we can expect to see; Lust, Greed,

Love, Hate and Violence and the major reoccurring

themes.



Soap’s target audience

Soaps are mostly built around domestic,relationship and family concerns, which women

usually are more interested in men.

When we chose this project, as a team we

immediately said to ourselves that we want tomake a soap which is also appealing to men.

Then we came up with the idea of mixing a sport

with these domestic, relationship and family

concerns which lead to ‘Heartbreak Utd’ beingcreated.



Our Target Audience

Our target Audience would be predominantly 16-45 year old males. Our soap involves the loved

sport of football mixed with the dramatic and

realistic everyday problems which evolve in

modern day Britain. Due to dramatic storylines and frequent affairs

and gossip, our soap would also be appealing to

women and could be enjoyed by young couples,

as something they can sit down together towatch.



Print work Our print work will involve the different characters,

pictured separately, all merged into one setting, where

just by looking at it, The audience will know what type

of people are being showed to them.

We will do this through Costume, Mise en Scene andFacial expression. We want to be able to do this as

we feel that the audience will be more intrigued if they

are able to identify with the characters.

We want to create posters that will stand out from thecrowd and attract more people to watch the show. But

also want them to be easily identified by one glance,

as what show it is.

Next Three



Next Three

weeks (outline of

jobs) Over the next three weeks there are

several key things items we have towork on. The First thing we have todo is finalise our characters (who we

would like to play them) write a firstdraft of our script, correct script,finalise our script. Do a recce to findthe setting that suits our productbest. Once we’ve finalised our scriptstart to write up our storyboard. Get

the improvements that need to bemade to the storyboard back thenfinalise our storyboard. Then find thecorrect actors together and find thetimes and dates that suit us all for

our filming. Write up our filmingschedule and distribute it to all the



Next Three Weeks (Who’s Doing

What?)

With each of our roles inplanning over the next threeweeks we have delegatedtasks that suit all of our skillsets. Edgar will be doing thestoryboard, Ollie will be doingthe script and Mark will bedoing the recce and findingsuitable actors to play eachrole. We feel that if we stickto our strengths it will lead toan extremely efficientworking group with a high

standard of work produced

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