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Soap opera differences - English and American

We use our soaps as catharsis as they relate to how the audience may live. They are much less dramatic and tend to feature 10 - 15 main characters at any one time. They are aimed at the working class audience. They do this by setting it in locations where these can relate to. For example coronation street is set in the inner city location of manchester. EastEnders is set in the east end of london, hence the name. The story lines of english soaps are tend to be much more realistic and believable and tend to include such things as love affairs, fights, arguments and jealousy. However there are also UK soaps which run in series like The only way is Essex or 'TOWIE'. These are scripted reality which is when the outcome is given to the actors and they have to think of what to say themselves.

Americans use soaps as escapists, unattainable lifestyle so therefore tends to be much more glamorous and have much more beautiful actors/actresses with perfect appearance. They are also melodramatic and based on emotional stories, love affairs and feminine genres. This is because they are aimed at the stay-at-home wife audience. American soaps are more like televised novels are they have a beginning, middle and end. They are usually set in series. They are all about having luxury lifestyles and are there to make the audience feel better. They also use more diegetic sound which helps the create the emotion behind the scene. 

Soap Opera Basics

• UK soaps contain more realism than US and Spanish soaps
• Traditional soap operas run contiuously – character storylines overlap
• Can have 10 – 15 main characters a range of ages, gender, sexualities, races, to appeal to as large an audience as possible
• Soap operas become part of the national phyche – they weave into our culture
• Characters become “people”, they are spoken of as if they are family
• Audience – Soaps tend to be aimed at female audiences. This affects scheduling, storylines, characters, narrative perspective
• Story – Events from A to B, events unfolding
• Narrative perspective – The point of view a story is told from
• Catharsis – Emotional cleansing. Watching someone go through the same as you makes you feel better

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Dallas is located in the state of Texas and is renowned for oil. Oil brings in money and power which then leads to greed and corruption. Oil is how america made its money, however it is owned by very few people.

US soaps are escapist meaning they are used for the audience watch it to escape there life, and watch people who are having a much worse time. This is different to UK soaps which normally have stories that people can relate to. American soaps are all centered on wealth and beauty, making it so heightened and inrealistic. 

Dallas is about one family called the Ewings. It originally ran from 1978 to 1991 as a day time drama and It had eight series in total and It ended with the main character being shot.

In comparison to UK soaps US soaps are more like novels rather than soaps with a start, beginning and end. The theme tune is far more upbeat which gives it more of a film feel, rather than a soap.  It is also quite like cowboy music which fits in perfectly with the theme of the soap.  Also unlike UK soaps, it introduces the characters with names at the start of the soap. 

As seen from the ariel establishing shot of Dallas, we can tell that there is an obscene amount of wealth. This is both shown by the large sky scrappers which are clearly owned/lived in by the people in the soap and the helicopter view which gives us the impression that it is the families own helicopter. We later find out from a shot of the helicopter that it is theres and they are flying home to their ranch. All these help us knit together the type of place these people are from. 

Non diegetic sound is used throughout to dictate the audiences emotion. These are not used in English soaps as they are more realistic.

Dallas is now its own brand, and as they had a large audience they use quick mid shots throughout, of the characters, to play on the audience knowledge of the soap. 

In the new series, JR is still calling the shots and is still powerful even though he is much older.