LOCATION SCOUTING

We would like to include these white houses into our soap opera trailer. This is because we feel they would add to the individuality of our soap, as these are the sort of houses that are uncommonly shown on TV. By using them, our audience would start to recognise these houses, and if they were to see them on an advert they would link them directly to our soap.

The sitting area is not only where people sit to eat but also to have important conversations; this is typical in soap operas such as Eastenders. We took this picture as a possible location as we feel it would suit our rural soap opera as it is a country pub.0

This is where conversations will go on, between people of the community as a bar within a pub is where people socialise.

Although not a lot happens outside the pub in soap operas, if anything, we thought we could this location to film characters walking into the pub to make it more clear for the viewer to understand where the character is in scenes.

In our soap opera, the pub is also where people can stay. This is to make our soap opera slightly unique from other soaps so viewers are able to see what life is like behind the bar at the pub and into the Inn house.

The sign post could be used to symbolise that the next scene will be set in the pub. Showing a character walking into a pub connotes that the following scene is based around them. If we show the viewers the sign post they won’t think this.

Showing the car park will develop the viewer’s knowledge of the characters as they will know whether they drive/ride bike/walk for example.  This area could also be used for village gatherings such as fetes and fund raising events.

 

This church is situated in the village we plan to film in. By including a shot of this in our trailer, we hope to display the traditional feel of the village to the audience.

This shop is in the village we plan to film in, in our trailer we will include at least one shot that involves this small independent shop. By doing this we hope to convey the community feel that we want our soap to have.

This is the road we plan to set our soap. We will use this end of the road as we think it's quite visually pleasing by the way it has houses, a road, greenery and trees. We also chose this end because of the road sign which we have decided to use at the end of our trailer to introduce the soap name to the viewers.

In an ideal world this location would be perfect for our rural original soap opera.  However, it is inconveniently located in Scotland which makes it out of the question.

 If we were creating a soap opera in a built up area this location would be appropriate.  This location was considered until we decided upon a rural setting. 

 This parade of shops stood out to us as we liked the idea of having numerous shops instead of one corner shop and/or pub as a meet-up area and place to work.

Unfortunately we couldn't get permission to use this pub. Luckily, with our contacts we acquired permission to use the pub featured above.

We liked this cathedral but it was located in a city centre and so was inappropriate as we wanted our soap opera to be a rural one.

-Jordan Kenneally & Lauren Tween & Amy Bowman