Story board.

Opening Credits

It starts zooming out from the river Thames

and the audience then see the O2 arena

so the audience then know the soap is

based in London.

The sound starts with a drum and then

piano music which is the soap’s code. This

let’s the audience know that the soap is

starting if they were to be in a different

room.

The title comes up ‘Eastenders’ which sets

the scene more specifically so the

audience know it’s set in the east end of

London. This also introduces the basic

information about the soap.

First Scene

The mise en scene of the first shot shows school

bags, pens and a football at the bottom of a staircase

showing this is a home to a family.

A male character’s feet are shown while he quietly

creeps down the stairs to get his shoes suggesting

he is leaving.

As he stands upwards, the shot pans upwards to

leading to the top of the stairs as he walks out the

camera shot suggesting he’s leaving.

The mise en scene of the carpet represents that the

house is not wealthy as it isn’t clean and looks quite

dull. The teddy on the stairs indicates there’s more

than one child.

A middle aged, woman character is introduced

just wearing a robe which she was still tying up

suggesting she was naked.

She then walks down the stairs showing her

identity which shows she must be the mother

figure of the household.

The sentence she says suggests this was a

one night stand as it shows the audience why

the man is leaving as he’s trying to sneak

away. It also shows the woman is upset by the

fact he is leaving.

The male character looks up then looks down in

guilt telling us that he didn’t want the woman

character to know he was sneaking out.

Second Scene

A well dressed woman who looks after her

appearance is introduced in a grubby cafe where her

appearance contrasts with the others around her. i.e.

The builders.

Her jewellery and make up look like she is putting on

a performance for the men as she looks like she is

high maintenance with the mise en scene of the

jewellery and they way she presents herself.

A male character is introduced when the phone is

answered who is a business man in a suit an leather

chair however it seems he is involved in a dodgy

business through the mise en scene of the messy,

unorganised office which is also dull and shadowed.

The distress shown by the woman character afer she

is called a ‘prostitute’ shows she isn’t happy at all

about something and lets the audience know

immediately something is going wrong for her.

She puts her hand to her face before replying telling

the audience that she is stressed and in a situation

with the man on the phone that she does not want to

be in.

She puts her hand to her face before replying telling

the audience that she is stressed and in a situation

with the man on the phone that she does not want to

be in.

The next shot is a framed shot between two

items in the office that are out of focus then

the man’s in a close up focussed shot in

between. This tells the audience that even

though he’s laughing he’s a bad character.

The shadows on the male character’s face

and the darkness of this shot show that this

character is a bad character and dark

colours like the black in the shot are used

to represent evil.

The dialogue in the shot tells the audience

that the woman on the other side of the

phone is being blackmailed. It explains why

she seems stressed when talking to the

male character.