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.

Heightened sense of drama.

Eastenders thrives on exploiting real life situations and so we achieve a heightened sense of drama. by bringing up different topics such as divorce,terminal illnesses and domestic violence. these topics bring up both dramatic and lighter moments on the soap opera.

here we see Den giving Angie a divorce during the Christmas celebrations and so we know that not only does it bring a dramatic uproar as it in not expected but also has the audience and viewers of this soap bossing for drama.
another dramatic moment that is commonly remembered is:

and also a more subtle or softer moment in EastEnders is the moment were Alfie's nan died, still dramatic but it is not based on Adrenalin and control rather the opposite but almost bringing the same affect

Storylines (little mo and trevor)

The first love of Little Mo's life was Trevor Morgan (Alex Ferns), but his severe mood swings and physical and emotional violence ruined their marriage; when she would try to leave, he'd turn on the charm to manipulate her into staying. He also isolated her from her family, who despised him. She always forgave him and even agreed to start a family. But when raped her for buying a hat to wear to her sister Lynne Hobbs' (Elaine Lordan) wedding after he'd forbidden her to attend, she realized she couldn't bring a child into that environment and went back on the pill. She finally left Trevor when she discovered he had deleted a message from Zoe Slater (Michelle Ryan), who had run away from home. On New Year's Eve 2001, timid 'doormat' Little Mo attacked Trevor, hitting him repeatedly with an iron when he attacked her. She went home thinking he was dead, but when she and her sisters returned to the Fowler home, he was gone. Little Mo was prosecuted and found guilty of attempted murder but was released after Trevor did a deal with the Slaters: he wouldn't give evidence against Mo if Kat didn't press charges for him assaulting her.

After Little Mo moved out and threatened to divorce Trevor, he terrorized her and took her and Sean, the baby son he'd had with Donna Andrews (Paula Jennings), hostage in the Slater home, which caught fire. Fireman Tom Banks (Colm Ó Maonlaí) saved Little Mo and Sean. He went back for Trevor but the fire exploded a can of petrol Trevor had brought into the house. Tom and Trevor died in the explosion.

Billy Mitchell (Perry Fenwick) and Little Mo bonded over their respective pasts. They became friends while Mo was married to Trevor and started dating after she was released from prison. Billy revealed his feelings during Trevor's trial when Mo admitted that part of her reason for staying with Trevor was that he was the only man who ever noticed her that way. Trevor did his best to wreck things but Billy proposed by spelling out 'MARRY ME' in alphabet macaroni and she accepted. After Trevor's demise, the pair married on Christmas Day 2002.

Mo fights back.

Late one night shortly before their first wedding anniversary, Little Mo she was raped by Charlie's darts-playing buddy, Graham Foster (Alex McSweeney), in The Queen Vic. When she told her family, Charlie attacked Graham. As he hadn't taken precautions, Little Mo got tested for STIs after reporting him to the police. All the tests came back negative except one: she was pregnant. The Slaters and Billy were shocked and disgusted when she insisted on keeping the baby, claiming it shouldn't be punished for its father's crimes, and she and Billy separated. She left the Square, returning for Graham's trial. She told Billy she had named her son Frederick William (Freddie for short), wanting to name him after good men. She and Billy reconciled after Graham's conviction, but Billy struggled to bond with Freddie as he couldn't look at him without seeing Graham. The couple divorced amicably and remain good friends.

After the divorce, Little Mo and Freddie moved in with her family. She and Alfie Moon (Shane Richie), her sister Kat Moon (Jessie Wallace)'s estranged husband, became much closer, but they separated when Mo discovered Alfie was dating Kat behind her back. Alfie and Kat reconciled and left the Square. Around February 2006, Little Mo was observed having difficulty with Freddie. She refused to medicate him when he had trouble teething, so she had trouble getting him to sleep. Freddie's head was injured in a fight with Bobby Beale (Kevin Curran) so a health visitor visited the Slaters. Little Mo was extremely hostile, seeing this as a questioning of her parenting ability. She constantly took Freddie to see Dr. Dr. Oliver Cousins (Tom Ellis), who moved her to another GP's patient list because he was interested in her romantically. They started dating in April 2006.

Mo and Billy divorced at the end of April 2006. Two days later, Mo and Oliver planned a night away in Brighton, but after a car crash caused by Deano Wicks (Matt Di Angelo) and Carly Wicks (Kellie Shirley), she got cold feet, telling Oliver that she couldn't leave Freddie. On her return, she found him unconscious. Freddie was rushed to hospital, where doctors found a head injury; Social Services suspected Little Mo. Thinking back, Mo realised Ben Mitchell (Charlie Jones) was responsible. She confronted him and shook him violently when he denied hurting him. The Mitchells warned Mo to stay away from Ben, almost costing her her job at the Vic, but Charlie persuaded Peggy to give Mo another chance. On 8 May 2006, Mo returned but was constantly warned by Phil and Grant. Ben saw her when helping himself to some crisps and ran away so Peggy fired her. She tried convincing people that Ben had caused Freddie's injury but no one believed her, not even her own father. He soon realised his mistake and begged her forgiveness for doubting her. After extensive tests, the doctors discovered Freddie had a low platelet count due to an infection, meaning that any minor injury could have serious complications as his blood didn't clot properly. Mo was cleared by the authorities but local residents thought she was responsible as confirmed by Ian Beale's (Adam Woodyatt) reluctance to let her hold Bobby. Knowing she would always be suspected, she decided to leave. Feeling guilty, Ben Mitchell finally told his dad that he had hit Freddie as Freddie pulled at his hearing aid. Mo wasn't sure what to do but decided not to tell the authorities. Phil threatened Mo but she told him she was quite capable of deciding for herself. Oliver tried convincing her to report Ben but she refused, leading to a nasty scene in the Vic when Peggy Mitchell (Barbara Windsor) called Mo a child beater. Oliver defended Mo and told everyone that Ben had confessed to Phil and Mo but Mo was angry that he hadn't respected her decision.

Oliver got drunk and Dawn Swann (Kara Tointon) had to help him home. Stacey saw this but did not tell Mo. Oliver realised just how much he loved Mo and proposed. Just as it seemed everything would be fine, Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner) told Mo that she saw Oliver with Dawn in the Vic on May 26, 2006. Heartbroken, Mo pushed Oliver so hard that he collapsed; shocked, he ended their relationship. She prepared to leave for Barnstaple; at the station, Oliver asked her to move to Leeds with him. Mo declined, saying that all her life she'd done just what she was told, and now she finally wanted to break away from being "Little Mo." She gave him one last kiss and left, saying she'd keep in touch and visit him in leeds. As she left Walford she smiled at Freddie and said, "It's just you and me now."

Stereotypical male characters (Den Watts)

Everyone loves a villain… but Dirty Den was the biggest villian of all. However cruel he was to his wife, daughter and mistress somehow we always forgave smooth-talking Mr Watts.

There was never a dull moment at the Vic when Den and Angie were around. The womanising cad had the ladies eating out of his hand... even gymslip mums (sixteen-year old Michelle Fowler gave birth to his child, Vicki Fowler).

However, in spite his bravado, his talk of family and love for his 'princess', Sharon, bad boy Den proved to be a coward when dealing with the really hard decisions in life – flunking all his family responsibilities and invariably taking the path of least resistance.

Though it sometimes seemed as if Den could wriggle out of any sticky situation – love children, business swindles, murder attempts – it became clear that his luck had run out when he crossed second wife, Chrissie. Once she was finished with him it was clear that this time there'd be no second coming…