Assignment unit 2

Hannah, Luke and Ellie

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.

RepresentationSoaps 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.

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.

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

Genre

Mise-en-sceneMise-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

Our IdeaPriory 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.

Characters

Rebecca played by Lacey Turner

Sally played by Chelsee Healey

Louise Played by Rebecca Craven

Lizzie played by Aleesha Dillion

Phil played by Steve McFadden

Tracy played by Sophie Thompson

Tom played by Joshua Pascoe

Alfie played by Jack Whitehall

We have chosen these characters because they have all played in soaps before.