a powerpoint to show how the characteristics have stayed the same through out the years of directors changing

1. By Teegan Mulqueen-Jeffery

2.  Neil Alderton
 Jennie Darnell
 John Dower
 Steven Finn
 Karl Neilson
 Kate Saxon
 Owen Morris
 Ian White
 David Tucker

3.  Noreen Kershaw
 Neil Alderton
 Alan Grint
 Tim Finn
 Stuart Davids
 Charles Lauder
 Ian Bevitt
 Sean Healy
 Duncan Foster

4.  Directors:
 Lee Salisbury
 Tony Prescott
 Tim O’Mara
 Michael Lacey
 Alan Wareing
 John Anderson
 Piotr Szkopiak
 Judith Dine

5.  Directors:
 Paul Riordon
 Steve Brett
 Nigel Keen
 Nicky Higgens
 Lee skelly
 Penelope Shales
 Sean Glynn
 Eddy Marshall

6. Albert Alarr:
Jim Baffico :
Sonia Blangiardo:
Kathryn Foster:
Christopher Goutman:

7.  There are loads of different types of characteristics that soap
operas use to show within their storylines and characters. Soaps
often use drama, love and tragedy when it comes to family's,
relationships and murders/deaths , sometimes humour is used
to lighten up the tragedy
 Soaps also deal with many different controversial issues
including HIV, homosexuality, rape, euthanasia, sudden infant
death syndrome and struggles with religion and faith.
 Main characters you will find in an soap opera are: the underdog,
the super villain, the straight laced good guy, the bungler etc.
 Soap operas examines the lives of everyday people, focusing on
emotional relationships to the point of melodrama, therefore
they take the research they make from observing reality and over
exaggerate and over act it so that it comes entertainment but
also relating as well.

8.  The main characteristics that define soap operas
are an emphasis on family life, personal
relationships, sexual dramas, emotional moral
conflicts; some coverage of topical issues; set in
familiar domestic interiors with only occasional
excursions into new locations. To fit in with these
characteristics , most soap operas follow the lives
of a group of characters who live or work in a
particular place, or focus on a large extended
family , or a particular class and status. This is
found in soaps like EastEnders where the show is
mostly based around the Mitchel family or a
family member.

9.  In us soaps the characters are frequently attractive,
seductive, glamourous and wealthy. The British and
Australian soaps like Coronation Street and Neighbours
tend to explore social realist storyline and portray a more
realistic style, mainly focusing on the working class,
furthermore UK and Australian soaps tend to have a
comical element however this diverges from US soaps
where an element of comedy is limited.
 Romance, secret relationships, extramarital affairs,
genuine love have been the basis of many soap operas
storylines, in US daytime serials, the most popular soap
opera characters and storylines, often have a romance
presented within the episode. Though U.S. daytime soap
operas are not generally rerun by their networks,
occasionally they are rebroadcast elsewhere.

10.  Therefore it shows that even though there have been
many different directors with different tastes, styles
and directing skills the characteristics of soaps have
never changed furthermore showing that directors
like to keep the traditional characteristics when
directing a episode. It also shows that even after a
decade soap characteristics hasn't changed even
though time and society has. For example in 1985
there was a sudden infant cotton death of Haasan
Osman then in 2010 another episode was created of
the same storyline with the same characteristics
however, it was for James Branning. Therefore
showing that over 25 years od different directors,
social and political times the characteristics of soaps
have stayed the same.