2. Audience
The audience for soaps vary on what soap it actually is. Soaps
attract all ages and all types of people which is good because it
gives the program popularity.
The people that watch soaps are usually middle aged women.
They can watch it with their kids just before they put their kids to
bed.
Soap opera’s where originally produced for female viewers with
the intention of selling soap powder for house-bound women.
3. Representation
Soaps are based in real life but with more tragedies. There are a lot of
stereotypes in soaps. They use stereotypes in characters so the audience can
identify certain characters. The name of the soap will give off a strong
connotation to its themes, lifestyles and conflicts.
Eastenders focuses on the tough and grim life in London's east end Coronation
Street invokes Manchester and its characters exhibit the stereotypical
characteristic of Northern straight talking.
Soaps use stereotypes but make characters do something you would not expect.
This creates a countertype.
There are stereotypical characters in Eastenders such as Phil Mitchell who is a
typical east London hard man.
4. Narrative
Stereotypical narratives of soaps consist of; Cliffhangers which is a dramatic
event at the end of an episode that will go on to be developed in the next
episode. Cliff hangers are used to draw the audience into watching the next
episode by making them question what happens next.
Other narratives such as; Mini Cliffhangers also are designed to have the same
effect but before an ad-break.
Soaps also use teasers which shows key scenes of either conflict/ or dramatic
excitement.
Another technique soaps use are Hooks, which where a dramatic scene is
shown at the beginning of the program to really capture the audiences
attention.
The Hook will also normally link back to a Cliffhanger shown previously.
Dramatic Irony is when an event takes place and the audience knows about it
but the characters do not.
5. Genre
Genre is a term for a category for literature and other forms of art or entertainment.
We have many types of the film genre, those are:
• Documentary
• Comedy
• Romantic
• Romantic Comedy
• Fiction
• Drama
• Horror
• Action and Adventure
• Thriller
• Family
• Crime
6. Mise-en-scene
Mise-en-scene is, a French word used to describe the design aspects of
theatre and film productions. Visual information in front of the camera
its made up of five elements;
• Settings and Props
• Costume and Hair and Make Up
• Facial Expressions and Body Language
• Lighting & Colour
• Positioning of characters and objects within the frame
7. Our Idea
Priory Park Hill.
• Set in College
• Rebecca – 17, she gets bullied
• Sally, Louise, Lizzie – Are the bullies
• Tracy and Phil- Rebecca’s parents- Problems at home… Divorce?
• Phil- Violent, Abusive. Punches Tracy- Rebecca see’s.
• Tom- 11, Rebecca’s brother- He is in trouble at school
• Sally, Louise and Lizzie- Spit on Rebecca/ pull her hair/ call her names/ beat her
up. Send her abusive text messages.
• Alfie- 21, Teacher at college Rebecca talks about her problems to… Ends up
dating her teacher.
• The bullies find out Rebecca’s dating Alfie and blackmail her into planting drugs
on Alfie and if she chooses not to they’ll tell everyone about their secret
relationship. Rebecca choses not to.
• It drives her to kill herself.
• Jumps off college roof to kill herself.
• Based in college and at Rebecca’s house.
8. We have chosen these characters
Characters because they have all played in soaps
before.
Phil played by Steve
Rebecca played by Lacey Turner McFadden
Tracy played by Sophie
Sally played by Chelsee Healey Thompson
Tom played by
Louise Played by Rebecca Craven Joshua Pascoe
Lizzie played by Aleesha Dillion Alfie played by Jack
Whitehall
