Diagram and Further Discussions

The first step before creating our advert is to decide what the main storyline that we are going to follow is going to be. To do this we created a diagram naming all the possible storylines that could realistically be followed. Zara and I both watch a lot of Soaps ourselves so the process was not that hard, we found that there was a limited number of storylines that are actually carried out, the same ideas are just reacted through different characters, we wrote down when this is the case on our diagram also.

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We had a discussion and both agreed that as media consumers ourselves we both enjoyed storylines involving romantic involvement, affairs and general dramatic irony. This narrowed our originally wide selection down!

After further talks about specific soap storylines we had watched ourselves we both remembered the success of the Coronation Street stryline featuring Sarah-Louise Platt became pregnant and the age of 13. Being teenagers ourselves we already had the main cast member and so our idea was born!