Characters - Auditions - Casting for Soap Opera

The first thing my group looked at while considering characters was "Stock Character", we had already previously thought about the kind of characters we want.
Stock characters are used in every soap and are the "Stereo Typical Characters" which you can pick out from each soap. In every soap there will be around 8-9 stock characters which you can expect.

An example would be "The Cute Cheeky Child", in Hollyoaks there is Tom, in Coronation Street there is Simon and in Eastenders there is Tiffany. This can be classed as a "Stock Character".

The stock characters me and my group considered were as following

• The Spiteful Bitchy Girl (Natasha - Neighbours, Rosie - Coronation Street & Lucy - Eastenders).
• The Innocent Girl (Abi - Eastenders, Hayley - Coronation Street & Carmel - Hollyoaks)
• The Business Man (Frank - Coronation Street, Phil - Eastenders & Brenden - Emmerdale)
• The Bad Boy (Sean - Eastenders, David - Coronation Street & Cane - Emmerdale)
• The Single Mother (Amy - Hollyoaks, Roxy - Eastenders & Sarah - Coronation Street)
• The Cute Child (Tiffany - Eastenders & Simon - Coronation Street)
• The Potential Dad (Alfie - Eastenders, Jack - Eastenders & Peter - Coronation Street)

These are the Characters that we are considering for our Soap Opera Trailer. 

Here is a link to my group blog for the post on "Stock Characters" - 

http://a2cvhspiglet.blogspot.com/2011/10/stock-characters.html

Here is a link to my group blog on "Casting" - http://a2cvhspiglet.blogspot.com/2011/11/casting.html

With Characters there has to be a storyline behind it so my group discussed how we could place our characters in a storyline for our soap trailer. The Story lines we thought of were

• Bullying/Jealousy
• Drug Deal
• Love Triangle
• A big secret

Incorporating these Shorelines with our characters they are now all linked together and we know exactly what characters we want and the storyline behind them.

We would like 3 bitchy girls and 1 innocent girl and put them into a Bullying Storyline, We would like 2 business man and a bad boy/bachelorr and put them into a Drug Dealing Storyline, these have both been covered in soap episodes but they are never normally in a soap trailer so we would like to try and challenge this by adding these story lines in. 

We are going to have a love triangle between a couple and involve the bad boy/bachelor, this storyline is a very common one so we are using this for our soap.

Lastly we like the idea of having a Secret Story line, which will cause shock, we have decided to have a Mother and Son but what the son doesn't know his Dad and the mother wants to keep it that way because in actual fact she was raped.

Lastly here is a link to my Group Blog for the post on Auditions to show who we have casted and why. http://a2cvhspiglet.blogspot.com/2011/10/auditions.html