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Melodrama is a dramatic genre that uses exaggerated emotions and melodramatic plot devices to appeal to the audience's emotions. It features one-dimensional, stereotypical characters like purely evil villains and innocently good heroines. The exaggerated and unrealistic storylines are meant to provide a cathartic experience for audiences who can root for the good characters and boo the bad ones. Soap operas have more complex characters but still feature heightened drama and emotion.
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Melodrama
This document provides information about melodramas, including their definition, origins, stereotypes, and storylines. Melodramas are dramatic works that appeal strongly to emotions through exaggerated characters and exciting plots. They originated in 19th century France as a combination of spoken drama and music. Common stereotypes in melodramas include the loveable rogue and damsel in distress. Storylines aim to elicit catharsis by mirroring characters' emotions, provide escapism from reality through unlikely events, or use realism to inspire viewers' aspirations.
Melodrama powerpoint
Melodrama is a dramatic genre that uses exaggerated emotions and melodramatic plot devices to appeal to the audience's emotions. It features one-dimensional, stereotypical characters like purely evil villains and innocently good heroines. The exaggerated and unrealistic storylines are meant to provide a cathartic experience for viewers who can root for the good characters and boo the bad ones. Soap operas have more complex characters but still rely on emotional melodrama.
Sub-Genre - Melodrama
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Drama is a word of Greek origin meaning "action" and referring to a performance on the stage in which actors act out the events and characters of a story. A dramatic work is usually called a play, but if you want to specify what type of drama it is, you can call it a comedy, a. tragedy, a farce or tragicomedy or other names. As wel1 as a play, drama usually involves
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o an audience, that is, the people who go to the theatre to watch the performance.
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- 1. By Amelia and Megan. “The term melodrama refers to a dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions”
- 2. Melodrama is more than plot driven: it is a drama, characterized by exaggerated emotions, stereotypical characters, and raging conflicts. There are no conflicted characters in a melodrama and it is exaggerated to be funny yet unrealistic. Melodrama allows the audience a cathartic experience by rooting for the good guys, booing the evil guy. Soap operas come closer, but they have more complex characters than melodrama allows.
- 3. The stereotyped characters are essential. They tend to be one dimensional, like the bad guy is pure evil, usually sneaky evil; the good woman is pure innocence, the good guy is brave and good. Evil/bad The village character sweetheart The hero stereotypes Damsel in The village tart distress
- 4. Hollyoaks usually includes sensational storylines such a dramatic murders and affairs. Because Hollyoaks target at a younger audience they use diverse storylines to attract an audience such as gay affairs, anorexia, obsession, incest characters, drug addiction, HIV and surrogacy. Every few months there is a huge storyline that is built up and carried on for a number of weeks, to market this the producers uses huge promos to target audiences. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWcLUW 3LTwM …
- 5. Incidentally non diegetic is used at the beginning of each episode to create atmosphere, which is then faded out once the characters start speaking. General locations of Hollyoaks depends on the storyline, usually they involve The Dog in the Pond (local pub), the sixth form, characters houses and flats, the SU, or Evissa (local beautician).
- 7. DOOL is an American daytime soap opera which is similar to Hollyoaks as it includes melodramatic storylines and over exaggerated characters. They are made to be like this to entertain the audience, and to heighten the drama. Melodramas give the audience a cathartic escape, meaning they can almost relate to the drama happening and use it as an form as escapism. Producers want audiences to have a personal connection with the characters, being drawn to a character means being drawn to the soap.