Analyze two scenes from a soap opera you are familiar with and show how they are typical of the genre.
Analyze two scenes from a soap opera you are familiar with and show how they are typical of the genre.
Soap Operas are one of the most popular genre on TV in Britain. Like all other types of genre there are stereotypes. Two of the most popular soaps are Coronation Street and Eastenders. Even though they are two programs from the same genre they are somewhat different to each other.
In both of the soaps there are on average 5 story lines happening concurrently. If there are less the soap would be boring and if there are more the soap will become too complicated. Each scene is on average about 40-50sec. this is short enough for people to keep interest and long enough to know what is happening. Each episode of a soap is around 25 minutes as there are commercial at the beginning, in the middle and at the end. The story line in a soap gets has around 8-10 minutes to develop in one episode. 10 minutes is a reasonable amount as you can say a lot in 10 minutes.
The scenes I will be concentrating on are from the two main soaps, One from Coronation Street and one from Eastenders. The two soaps are concentrating on two totally different story lines. Coronation Street is a serious one but the Eastenders story-line is more of a light hearted story-line.
Soap Operas are one of the most popular genre on TV in Britain. Like all other types of genre there are stereotypes. Two of the most popular soaps are Coronation Street and Eastenders. Even though they are two programs from the same genre they are somewhat different to each other.
In both of the soaps there are on average 5 story lines happening concurrently. If there are less the soap would be boring and if there are more the soap will become too complicated. Each scene is on average about 40-50sec. this is short enough for people to keep interest and long enough to know what is happening. Each episode of a soap is around 25 minutes as there are commercial at the beginning, in the middle and at the end. The story line in a soap gets has around 8-10 minutes to develop in one episode. 10 minutes is a reasonable amount as you can say a lot in 10 minutes.
The scenes I will be concentrating on are from the two main soaps, One from Coronation Street and one from Eastenders. The two soaps are concentrating on two totally different story lines. Coronation Street is a serious one but the Eastenders story-line is more of a light hearted story-line.