My opinion on Hollyoaks.

        Hollyoaks relates to everyday problems that young people face today. It can be small and petty things like a stupid argument to something much more serious such as pregnancy and abortions, STIs and divorce of parents. For example, Russell Owen (Played by Stuart Manning) somehow caught testicular cancer and did not want to tell his family or anyone. He only spoke about it when it was forced out of him. Perhaps Hollyoaks blows everything out of proportion a bit because what you tend to see is the very worst of these subjects and not people who get off lightly and only experience the surface of these problems. However, it would be boring if you saw it like this everyday. Also I prefer it this way because it lets the nation see this and take for granted that they are so lucky not to have these problems and see for themselves what a mess people can get into.

        Hollyoaks is set in Merseyside in a village called Chester as you know. Most of the characters are ‘Scousers’ and from the surrounding Liverpool area. The only main character that I can find and is not from Liverpool is Dannii Carbone (Played by Christina Baily) who is who is ‘Italian’ although she speaks with a northern accent (they do have a fairly low budget). However, they use Dannii to their advantage. Tony (Played by Nick Pickard) and Mandy (Played by Sarah Dunn) Hutchinson open an Italian restaurant called the Gnosh and they want do an advert in Italian. So they get Dannii to do a translation but because Dannii does not like them she changes all the words to say something like ‘Hi I’m Tony and Italian stereotype’. Most of the funnier side of things are done by the teenagers and younger people generally (which makes sense because who else would do funny things?) and take place mostly in the more crowded places like in a bar (which also makes sense because you tend do try to be funny when socialising). The more serious stuff takes place in quieter places like in people’s flats (well where else would you argue and have sex?). I think that the main focus in Hollyoaks is the characters as shown in the title sequence. Also in the title sequence the music gives Hollyoaks a modern feeling with the guitars and drums playing a catchy theme tune. This plays over a load of moving shots that indicate all the different characters. You do not see much of the location which is clever because the village it is set in has no history and so it does not matter where it is set, you would not notice if it was set somewhere else.