Treatment for chosen Soap Opera idea

Soap Opera – The Princes Court

Characters – Characters develop the ability to keep their target audience interested by playing a role that many people may be able to relate to. Matriarch’s/ Patriarch’s will be a key focus to some very important characters.  At this stage of pre-production, names are not for definite as there are an infinite amount of possibilities so they will be confirmed during future group meetings.

Series Plot/ Story-lines – Ideas have been raised of: Teenage pregnancy, relationships (love and friends), high expectations (success and failure), drug abuse, crime (rape, arson, murder?) and finally education.

Synopsis/ Outlook - Set in a rural multicultural London council estate. There’s a strong focus on teenage lifestyles and social contemporary themes will be used to show this. To engage the audience, the soap will show progression and developments of characters with themes of loss, love, tragedy, happiness, and success of a wide cast of characters. To accompany all of this drama there will be iconic location references such as a pub, corner shop, park etc to help the audience identify with everyday life scenarios.

Screening/ Time – E4, 9-10PM, Monday Wednesday Friday. E4 shows much young teenage drama such as 90210, Glee and One Tree Hill so it would be appropriate to target our audience at the hub of their interests.

Treatment. (Beached By A Ball)

Beached by a ball focuses on a beach party the essentially goes wrong. Three good friends are all killed in very gruesome ways. and no one knows what happened.
Keeley, Liam and Kip have been best friends since pre school, they along with three other friends, Annie Spencer and Kayleb all go to the beach party.
Keeley who bought a plus one to the party is seen going into a room with a random guy at the party, later she is found hanging from the ceiling.
Liam takes a walk with Annie on the beach but later goes missing. he is found on the third day of the investigation he was knocked out and buried alive in the sand.
Kip is a junkie and as always is taking drugs in the garden. when he passes out all the friends think he is just out of it. later his blood tests prove that his joint was actually poisoned and so he inhaled all the toxic fumes and dies.

The Pilot episode is basically the party and the the introduction to the police investigation, valuable information goes missing, and it seems that there is no particular motive apart from the fact that, the only connection with these three murders is that they were really close friends. all the other people at the party have alibis and so no one can be taken into custody.
The soap follows the lives of the parents of the victims along with the friends, and the police investigation that is being followed.
The plot follows the lead of the closer they seem to getting to finding the murderer in fact the more way off they are.

Different episodes will follow the constant changes in information, the lies and the threats that are made, people and characters taking justice into there own hands and the possible yet inevitable twists that are bound to happen.

Pitch Table

The Cake Shop:
A social soap;
this focuses on a group of teens, who encounter series of social and personal problems. who then meet up in the cake shop to discuss and unwind from there problems. some of the teens work there and problems such as theft, unacceptable relationships are tackled within the soap.
Family and friendly relationships are put to the test to see who really would survive.

Target audience: teens and young adult.

Beached By A Ball.
A crime soap.
this idea focuses on a teen party that has gone out of hand, at the party 3 teens die, and it is the police that have to figure out what happened. although this proves difficulties as some teens tamper with police investigation and no one seems to know what happened. with all the people at the parties as alibis for each other. who killed who?

Target audience: younger viewers


Remanded.

This is a soap about the emotional and psychological stages that remanded prisoners and potential convicts are kept in. It shows the survival skills that younger prisoners learn from the begging. following the trials of 7 different court cases. We soon find that the inmates are not as criminal as they seem.

Target audience: Older viewers.