Soap Opera – Evaluation

Evaluation

Planning: Our main influences were from programmes such as Skins and The Inbetweeners, which helped in thinking of our storyline. The planning got very confusing as everyone had different ideas and we changed the idea many times. A lot of the ideas were very unrealistic as the only setting we were able to use is the school and we had no money to spend on props and costumes. We chose to use ourselves as the characters, which we later found out was a bad idea as a few people felt uncomfortable with their roles. Also, because each of us were playing a character, we didn’t have enough people to do the filming.

Filming: The filming of our soap didn’t go to well as it wasn’t well organised. We didn’t have any costumes and there was a lack of props which therefore changed a lot of the ideas we originally had. We only had one person filming which made it very difficult to get different angles and camera shots. None of us were very sure of the story line and the characters they were playing, so most people weren’t very enthusiastic about it.

Editing: We have not edited our soap yet so I cannot evaluate it.

Characters

Daniel B: A guitar player but a secret opera singer.

Alex O: A chav but secretly likes reading

Rachel H: Head girl but a secret bully

Molly C: Popular flirter but a secret virgin

Sam T: Supposed to be gay, will young wannabe, but was ill and not present.

Joanne H: Weirdo but likes to film people

Emily S: Geek but a secret druggy

Mike S: Cool guy but drug dealer

Luke D: (Filming) Narcoleptic

Mr G: Cool teacher

All characters are supposed to be representing stereotypes and to show how people are different to what they are supposed to be like just the way they look.