Focus Group Questions - Andreia and Diego

Focus group meeting with participants Diego and Andreia.

Overall the meeting was a success; having watched popular soaps already, such as Eastenders and Coronation Street, Andreia and Diego believe that our soap fits into the soap opera genre, having followed many of its conventions.

They liked the social realism aspect of the soap particularly, including topics such as teenage pregnancies. However, as a group we have to ensure that some of these story lines do not appear to be ‘cliché’.

The use of characters was one of the main topics covered as it was suggested that the soap stereotypes can sometimes be ‘predictable’ and therefore there must be a ‘good balance’ within the soap to make it more unique. Also, tragic characters should be included to trigger emotions from the audience in which they can can relate to.

In response to Andreia and Dieago's focus group answers, as a group we need to add more twists to the soap as this is something that is re-occurred when asking our focus group so this is definitely an aspect which we will need to work on. 

[Written by Michael] [Written by Vinita]

Focus Group Questions - Louise

Focus meeting with Louise.

Louise has watched one of the biggest soaps at the moment; Coronation Street which has a big sense of community which could maybe portrayed in our soap. The use of social realism relates to teenagers as teenage pregnancies are a contemporary issue. 

The soap itself is very ‘creative’ and if anything could be included then ‘more twists’ should be, however if this was to be done, then as a group we would have to show a clear narrative to portray clarity within the soap.

In response to Louise's focus group feedback, I feel as a group we need to establish exactly what future episodes may hold due to the main storyline being about teenage pregnancies, where would we go from that?  Maybe aspects of bullying as this is something that possibly everyone goes through at some stage. This could be physical, racial etc.
Also making each storyline that is portrayed clearly and as close to teenage reality as possible.

[Written by Michael] [Written by Vinita]

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