East Enders is a BBC soap opera set in East London. It focuses on the lives of working class families and their struggles. The show airs Monday and Friday evenings from 8-8:30pm and Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7:30-8pm on BBC. It is never aired on Saturday or Wednesday except for once when it was moved due to a football match. The show uses music and filming techniques to portray the dull, monotonous lifestyles of the characters. It shows the daily lives of various families through scenes at home, at a local cafe, and with villains plotting at a fake law office.

1. East Enders
By Haseeb Ishfaq

2. The opening credits start with a sequence
of drums which is sort of an alarm for the
audience that the show is starting.
Soap: East Enders
Where is it set: East London
Which institution broadcasts it: BBC
When is it set: Now
Can easily identify The O2 Arena and the
River Thames, which we then confirm that
Institution which broadcasts the this is based in London.
show is quite clearly BBC.
Just by looking at this shot we can
recognise the soap is East Enders as we
have seen the title sequence so many
times.

3. The institution which is BBC airs East Enders
every Monday and Friday at 8:00 – 8:30,
furthermore on Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 –
8:00
By record the show has never aired on
Saturday nor Wednesday except once
when United were having a Derby
against City on Friday and the show had
to be moved to Wednesday.
Well known institution so people are
The music and the sequence makes the
bound to be attracted.
audience assume the lifestyle of the
characters are very boring, nothing
glamorous and dull. Maybe even
monotonous.

4. Adult male shoes and they don’t seem to Mainly boy’s football clothing showing that maybe
fit in which shows that maybe this adult kids are living in this house.
doesn’t live here.
Pink clothes and shoes which shows that
obviously there is also a girl living here.
Tacky carpet and wooden
floor which tells us that this
household is of the average
working class people

5. Adult trying to sneak out of house
emphasising a one night stand
perhaps.
More pink and girly clothing just thrown on the
banister.

6. Lady coming down the stairs in her 50’s in a
dressing gown. She has definitely just slept
with another male outside of her marriage.
More standard print wallpaper. Also frames
which look like they’ve been bought from a
market.
She isn’t very made up and therefore Jumper thrown on the banister which is an adult’s
communicating that this is the house of a clothing. This is the household of another man.
working class family.

7. Builders are eating suggesting this is a
local cafe probably next to where
they are working.
She is sitting in a cafe of perhaps lower
status. There are tatty posters and a chalk-
board with the menu on.
Woman of obviously higher class as she has time
She doesn’t seem very happy.
to put on her make up and jewellery.

8. She is of higher status, her hair is done up and
she has a fake tan, her make up is well done.
She obviously gets all her prep done from
salons.
Some sort of inner disturbance. She doesn’t
seem very happy and seems to be facing a
problem.
Traditional fish and chips bar, you
can see pictures of chips with
ketchup.

9. Man sat in a dark room suggesting he is the villain in
the program. There are only 2 points of focus in light.
Clearly not an actual legal office. Set
up in an ominous atmosphere.
This man is blackmailing the woman before into being a
prostitute. He obviously has something the woman does
not want getting out.