Unit 21 - Plan and Deliver A Pitch for a Media Product

  LO2 - Be able to create a proposal and pitch for an original media product based on a given brief. My Questionnaire I have chosen to research my desired audience of people aged 15-25 through a google form including open and closed questions in order to gain audience feedback about the plan for my soap opera.   My Google Form Target Audience Research I have chosen to research my target audience of age 15-25 year old people via online survey in order to gain lots of quick responses into how to proposed soap opera idea would be taken.  My online survey has targeted my age range accurately and found out that in general my age group does not watch soap operas generally because they feel that they are aimed towards an older audience due to the issues shown within them along with the characters feeling unreliable. This will help me to develop my ideas on my soap opera further as it allows me to make sure my issues and characters represent a younger audience so that they will f...

  LO1 - Be able to generate ideas for an original media product based on a client brief. Soap Opera  - A serial drama characterised by tangled relationships and melodramatic or sentimental situations. It must focus on characters in a specific location, revolve around their relationship and be fairly serious. The Brief You must make a British Soap Opera for the BBC which will be shown 4 nights a week at prime time and aimed at 15-24 year olds. This must fit with the BBC's PBS image and be a 5 minute sample of the soap opera with a cliff hanger and at least 3 characters. Example of Similar Soaps - Research Hollyoaks - C4 Eastenders E20 - BBC Three Waterloo Road - BBC One Neighbours - BBC/C5 Home and Away - ITV/C5 Dawson's Creek - C4/C5 The OC - E4 90210 - C4 Doctors - BBC Similarities Between These - Closely set together - Dramatic story arcs involving drugs, murder, cheating, love - Heavy in dialogue - Recognisable characters and families - Everyone seems to know each other - C...