Soap Opera Trailers

When comparing our results from the individual soap opera trailer task we realised that for most of the findings they were quite similar. A lot of the trailers were shown either during the adverts of that soap or either before or after. The time the trailers were shown usually depended on the contents of that trailer. But most of the ones we watched were audience friendly and could have been shown at any time of the day.

Soap Trailers

After comparing results and creating a chart we realised which soaps appeared at what time the most and the most popular times for a trailer to be advertised. The most common time was around 7pm-7:30. We believe this to be because these are the times most of the soaps are on or are on its advert break. Advertising a trailer at a similar time to when the soap itself on creates interest to the audiences and gives them a chance to see what plots are developing. We found that more trailers were shown during the evening rather than early in the morning. Sometimes this could come down to the contents of the trailer and whether they are audience friendly to show at a certain time. We want our trailer to be audience friendly so it can be shown all throughout the day to give it more of a chance to be seen by a wider variety of audiences that would not perhaps usually watch the soap.