Final Location

The google web definition for location scouting states: Location scouting is a vital process in the pre-production stage of film making and commercial photography (Reference:)

When location scouting we had to visualise how our trailer would be displayed and where we envisioned it to be set. We decided we would like to set it in the suburbs of a town in a modern village. We have chose a modern village because our target audience is Category D audience members and we feel that our audience members should be able to relate with our characters in a realistic setting. We would also like our characters to all be associated with each other as residents of villages often are.



A very generic convention of soap operas, is the local pub that residents all socialise in. We have decided to use a pub as this establishes to the audience the iconic convention that most soaps tend to share. We would like the pub to be the place where characters confide in each other, arguments happen and the whole village congregates. This is very typical of other soap operas, for example: The Queen Vic in Eastenders has seen many fights, wedding receptions and is always packed with locals.



A post office relates to our audience because it adds a sense of realism to our soap opera which is what we are aiming to achieve.











A village hall could be a possible place for the residents to gather together, this could be teenagers hanging around outside or it could be where the older residents take dance classes. This would be a good setting to use as it adds realism and our audience can relate more with going to a village hall than they could if we set our soap opera around posh restaurants and 5 star hotels.

We would like to film our soap opera trailer in a cul de sac, this is because all the residents are neighbours and will all be familiar with eachother. We aim to create storylines which involve multiple characters and their relations with eachother.

The reason we have chosen these locations is because they are all in one area, meaning that all the buildings look similiar. This will aid us during editing because when putting all the shots together it will look more consistant than if we had filmed in many different locations. In all soaps, the houses of the central characters tend to be fairly close together which is also fitting for this area,because the houses look onto each other. The fact that we all live in Great Leighs means that we don't need to gain permission to film outside houses because we can use our own.