Initial Soap Ideas

To start our Soap Opera, we wanted to brainstorm some initial ideas. We split up the ideas into Characters, Location, Story Lines, Titles and Target Audience. For instance, we looked at location and listed all of the locations we would use. We have made up this brainstorm so that we could think about actual story lines and come up with characters we will use.

From this we have come up with the idea of making a soap opera based in the countryside (rural) and aimed at all audiences. Similar story lines to Eastenders as they have the same target audience. But set in a totally different area with different types of characters.

After brainstorming we then went on to discuss the story lines and characters further. We came up with ten different characters and a few story lines between them. We have made a mind map to show the relations between characters.

We also came up with a few story lines including a pregnant woman that does know who the father is but has two possibilities. The farmer man or the pub owner who are in fact best friends.
Another storyline is about a young male teen that has two different girls pin-ing after him. One being the new rebel girl from the city and a sweet innocent farmer girl.

The last story line we came up with was for the pub owner and his son. So that we could touch on a different sexuality we decided that the pub owners son could be gay and the pub owner wants him to take over the pub but he really doesn't want to do it, although he doesn't want to disappoint his father.

Emily Wallace