The reasons behind the first two episodes

The first episode follows the typical soap trailer editing being an episodic narrative where all the different characters story lines start to interlink together. This type of episode is good for a first episode as it gently introduces the characters and their personalities, this would not confuse the viewer but intrigue them, as they would wonder what problems each character will cause. This sticks to the hypodermic needle approach as viewers can watch passively and gain their own opinions on characters. However, the episode includes an interesting cliff hanger at the end with both Danielle and Richard's story lines, this would therefore make the viewers want to watch the next episode.

The second episode is very different. We decided as a group that we would have a flash forward episode. However, we found it hard to dedicate a whole episode to a flash forward instead we just had flash forwards in the episode making it a anachronic narrative. We decided to do this because Hollyoaks did a flash forward with the Carmelle and Calvin storyline, they were the first soap to do a flash forward episode and it was a big success. For example it was in newspapers such as The Daily Mail. So we thought as we are aiming at the same audience as Hollyoaks we would do an episode with flash forwards in because it was popular. Also from the target audience questionnaire I did for soap operas I found that most people liked episodes that focus on one storyline so we thought it would capture a large scale audience if we dedicated an episode to the Danielle storyline.