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For our Soap Scene, we tried to convey a common storyline in most everyday soaps, and that is school issues. Our storyline focuses mainly on a boy, played by Chris, who is getting bullied at school, the storyline begins in the corridor, the boy (Chris) is on his phone when he walks past the bully (Elliot), the bully asks him 'what are you looking at?', this helps to give the audience the effect that something is about to happen. The bully then takes the boy's phone and then throws it into the girl's toilets, causing the boy to run in and retrive his phone, as he picks up his broken phone, a girl (Lily) see's him and then runs out screaming. We then editited the footage so that it fades into the next day, a scene between the boy and his father (Elliot), having been reported by the girl, they have been called in for a meeting about the incident, they start by disscussing the incident with the father questioning the boy's reasons for being in there, the boy does not say much, this gives the audience the effect that the boy is quite a shy person that likes to keep his feelings and opinions to himself, we then used a bit of comedy to lighten up the scene, the father tells a joke which the boy dissaproves of, causing the father to slap him to the ground, this leads us on to the final scene. The headteacher (Rhianna) appears in the waiting room, then leads them into the interviewing room, the boy is asked numerous questions, and the father is shown a statement by the girl, the boy then reveals the real problem, he says that he is homosexual leading to the fathers horrified look, this corresponds with the text 'to be continued ...', to create a cliffhanger that leaves the audience wanting to see more.
