Types of Soap Opera Trailers

If you look at soap opera trailers you will notice that they fall into different categories:

• Season
• Story line Specific
• Thematic 

Look at the following examples

1. On your blogs provide and description for each type; Season, Story line specific and Thematic.
2. Using these examples or ones of your choice conduct and textual analysis of each type, ensure you use media language/terminology and reference how they have used soap trailer conventions.
3. Say which type of blog you are going to create and how you are going to use and or subvert soap opera conventions.

SEASON

Official Hollyoaks Trailer - Spring 2015
'Betrayal, affairs and Mercedes McQueen homecoming... Spring has officially sprung in Hollyoaks!'

Official C4 Hollyoaks Trailer: June 2015 'Proposals, police hunts and private affairs...'

STORY LINE SPECIFIC

Eastenders trailer for the 30th anniversary of the BBC show
The Week of Revelations - EastEnders 2015 Trailer - BBC One


THEMATIC

Shirley apologises to her son - EastEnders - BBC One

Fateful summer on Emmerdale 

In addition to the types you should notice that soap opera producers tend to use trailers as a chance to break from the conventional way soap operas are filmed and come across visually. The mise-en-scene and cinematography lend themselves more to film conventions, this could be to excite the target audience. See the Coronation Street one below BUT you should have noticed this in some of the above examples too.