Media Planning Storyboard

 The planning was crucial for the soap trailer as we needed a clearly defined structure to help us stay on track on the filming. Without proper storyboard planning, we would not have been able to book filming times with the local businesses thus crippling our organisation.

From the very start, we had a clearly defined storyboard in our heads. We decided to start the film with the shot of David Bangs in the pub drinking his shot as shown from this early story board sketch. Referring to the Todorovian theory model, the alpha male then leaves the pub with a tracking shot, drunk.

We then cut to a scene that tackles a contemporary teenage issue; drug abuse. By showing teen drunkeness and also teen drug abuse, we are able to shift the focus of the soap trailer to modern teenage issues and hopefully give the audience characters to relate to thus engaging the core of our demographic.
The next two shots offer a context and background to our characters and the town, as the two characters shown are homosexual lovers. As they are walking, the alpha, still drunk, barges into them on purpose, making the couple sit down and ponder whether or not their romance is worth the amount of abuse they get, insinuating that the other characters also treat them with hostility.

The next shots feature our second main character portrayed by Josh. This is the love-struck teen who is in love with another main character, portrayed by Emily. This character is buying flowers to impress her, when across the street he sees his love interest and a new boyfriend on a date. Heartbroken, he throws his flowers to the floor and leaves. This is where our geek character, played by me, comes in to study the flowers as a potential botanist or just as an odd hobby, suggesting that this socially awkward character has some peculiar traits or ambitions. This is shown by a non-diegetic voiceover of a teenage girl stating that if he "didn't spend so much time focusing on flowers, people might like" him.

The shot ends with the geek character leaving with the flowers walking past the heartbroken teen. We then jump cut to all of our characters standing around the signpost to avenue road -- the signpost that gave us the inspiration for our Soap title. A non-diegetic voiceover states that "there are two sides to every story" which is our tagline and suggests that everything shown in the trailer has multiple perspectives that will be analysed further in the show itself.

The trailer then closes.