Treatment (Planning)

For our soap trailer, we wanted to get three or more stories across to our target audience. We decided that we wanted three different stories within our trailer, because we thought that our target audience would be able to relate to these stories with their own life's in some particular way. These three stories are all about people having problems/issues within their lives, which may relate to people in the real world, the issues that our soap is set around are drug, financial and family issues. As a group we thought that these were some of the stronger problems that our target audience may be able to relate to, as these particular issues are very common. We thought that these issues would be suitable because our target audience may be able to get an understanding of the problems drugs and financial issues can cause, and get a better understanding of how the characters actually feel about the problems they are facing.

For the location of our soap trailer, we decided that we were going to use our local town, which is St Neots (Image on the right). We thought that this would be a suitable for our soap trailer as well as our target audience because all soap operas have a set location, for example the soap Eastenders is set around a square (market). All of our locations that we used for our soap trailer were are located around the town. Setting our soap around the St Neots Town was more beneficial as, myself and the rest of the team already live around the area, so because of this, once we had our stories, locations for each of the stories were very easy to find. For example the Pub (Pig and Falcon and the betting shop (Ladbrokes) are located within the St Neots town.