The document discusses how viewers can identify key details about the British soap opera EastEnders from its opening credits sequence. The sequence features recognizable music and images that establish it is set in London's East End and broadcast on the BBC. Viewers can assume the characters live working class lifestyles based on the dreary tone of the opening theme music.

1. Evaluation

2. How do you know which soap this
is?
 It has a distinctive opening
picture of the Thames, and a very
recognisable theme tune which
everyone recognises as the
eastenders theme tune. The
opening drums at the start tell
you straight away what soap it is
and the depressing piano music
is very famous and it is always
linked to eastenders and part of
its identity

3. How do you know where it is set?
 You can tell by the opening
picture of the river Thames
which is a famous landmark of
London. It also shows
landmarks like the O2 arena
and a birds eye view of
London looking grey which
shows it is not about a high
class population. There is also
a clue in the name calling it
eastenders which tells you it
set in the east end of london.

4. How do you know which institution
broadcasts it?
 The BBC broadcasts eastenders. You can see this from
the BBC logo underneath the title and in the corner of
the opening sequence. There is also no adverts in the
programme which is a feature unique to the BBC

5. How do you know when its set?
 You know it is set in the twenty first century by the
modern landmarks that are in the opening sequence
like the O2 arena and the millenium dome which
opened in the year 2000.

6. What do we assume about the
lifestyles of the characters from the
music
 From the dull repetitive music at the start we assume
that the characters lives are similar and uninteresting.
Also its quite a depressing tone which could reflect on
the unhappy lives of the characters. It is not giving the
impression that they have glamorous lifestyles but are
more of a working class citizens.

7. Storyboard
From the first scene you can see a sports bag crayons and a football which suggests
that a young boy lives here. Also the way the man is creeping down the stairs shows
he does not live here and is trying to get out without being heard, and his shoes are
shown in shot to tell us that he has stayed the night.