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Question 1) In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media conventions

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Question 2) How effective is the combination of your final media products and ancillaries

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Qyestion 3) What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Question 4) How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?

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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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