Individual Treatment

From the Pitch Table, i have written a treatment for one of the idea's produced individually. The title of the Soap is called 'Recovery Centre' which focuses on the drama experienced by those who are troubled. The location is in a drop-in centre in a suburban area and as the issues tackled in the soap become more diverse (from drug addiction and alcoholism to cancer and rare diseases) the departments of the drop in centre become bigger, allowing it to aim attention in various other downfalls in life.

The Characters:
Terry - The popular male character who becomes the role model in his school at only 16. Terry is an orphan and was raised in an orphanage for a few years when some of his blood-relatives agreed to look after him. Due to his lack of real care and support, Terry latches unto his friends as if they were his family, therefore his social life is very important to him. However in school he was influenced by seniors to do drugs to raise his status, he becomes addicted to them naturally, thereby causing his friends and followers to do the same. As the drugs dealt with are extremely addictive, all those who have taken drugs because of him now hold him responsible for their actions, regardless of the fact that they had a choice wherever to follow him or not. Terry's social and private life now lays in ruins as he finally takes the first step into admitting his problem. By being introduced to the drop-in centre by a distant, unsociable classmate who lurks unnoticed in school, he makes good friends with his mentors and other addicts, seeing the reality of what the society makes youths like him, he decides to clean up and change for the better. Terry's story only touches the social impacts of drugs as what society demanded from him was too powerful to resist, especially as he was the most popular guy in school.

Jill - Jill is a very sensitive, fragile and easily impressionable girl, at the age of 20, who has had the right start in life. Going to a private school her attitude can seem slightly snobby to strangers. Living with her rich and successful parents she seems to be the one with the silver spoon in her mouth until she witnesses a horrifying murder at night time. The murder had traumatized her so badly as she had been kept away from danger due to her rich lifestyle, that she had developed anxieties. After reaching the police and telling them everything she began to break down causing her to have anxiety disorders. This illness causes her personality and lifestyle to change dramatically. Such changes include her locking herself in her room and refusing to leave the house in fear of someone watching her causing her to run away from any occurring problems. Before her paranoia targets the house she is sectioned off to a clinic to be cured. After 5 years of being kept safe in the clinic, she had finally taken the last steps into defeating her anxieties. Her story was a success, yet her disorder had opened her eyes to how the situations in life can be overcome, that she had gotten a job in the drop- in centre to raise awareness about anxiety disorders and how it can ruin a persons life. Jill's story is just a story that has already been completed, yet the lessons in her story can influence and protect others who may be going through something similiar.

Joel - The character named Joel, aged 32 is a quiet man who had been beaten and abused by his father, now alone and constantly working on a job and his hobbies. From his first arrival in the drop-in centre he claims he has had anger issues ever since he was a teenager and most recently, he had snapped out at one of his closest friends, beating her and giving her a black eye, after apologizing, she forgives him realizing that the problem is much more deeper than it seems, therefore advising him to go into the centre to get help. During his anger management meetings, Joel gets in touch with his past and is told that his anger issues rests with his fathers actions. Joel therefore decides to meet his father who is in his late 60's to try and find out why he did those awful things to him. Joel's story covers the horrors and true fears in abuse.

Target Audience
The target audience for this soap opera  has no specific limit or range as everyone of every age is used to portray the effects of these issues regardless of age. Some of these horrors in life are also age and gender specific, such as Alzheimer's disease and miscarriages.

Frequency
This soap opera will air four times a day during the weekday at 7:00. This time is ideal to attract viewers as the day is almost coming to an end and people can relax and watch a program that can help them to get rid of any stress they may have experienced during the week with their jobs or their social life.

Pitch Table

The individual idea's created a different range of soap opera's and what they try to represent. The third idea was my chosen choice as it has a more sympathetic view on the problems the characters are going through.

Title	Content	Style	Target Audience	Channel & Time	Frequency
Born West	The West part of the area which concentrates on the society	Gritty and harsh towards society expectations Rebellious	Youth Preferably teenagers	BBC 7:30pm-8:00pm	Four times a week
Hearty Road	Conflicting neighbour-hood with prejudice	Stereo-typical reality of old fashioned views	Elders Mainly 50 year olds	ITV 5:00pm-5:30pm	Five times a week Catch up on Saturdays
Recovery	A drop-in center which deals with all sorts of problems	Down to Earth Very realistic	All ages All problems occur within all ages	BBC 7:30pm-8:00pm	Four times a week Catch up on Sundays

Here is my pitch table for all the idea's i have come up with individually. The third idea was the choice i stuck with and carried out a treatment for it about the story-lines, frequency and characters.

Born East
The first idea is a similar context to EastEnders where a lot of drama and tension is shown in society and community, however, instead of looking towards families, the rivalry begins with gang warfare. The gang life is to be portrayed a gritty and rough so that the concept of being in a gang is not seen as influential or glamorous.

Hearty Road
This idea originated from Coronation Street where where there is more serious conflict such as murder and betrayal. However, this type of drama is very serious and can affect the vibe of the soap opera and make it seem more of a TV drama than 'a slice of life'.

Recovery
The last idea is a very simple yet dramatic piece which highlights the bad aspects of life overall, much like other soaps the issues are combated realistically.

The pitch table helped me to put all different aspects of life into three different stories and devise sneaky ways to present them into programming.