Soaps-
Coventions of soap operas-
-It is a serialised drama that usually runs week-in, week-out, all year round.-It features continuous storylines dealing with domestic themes and personal or family relationships.-It generally has a well-known theme tune and intro sequence which has changed little over the years.
-Though the casts for soap operas tend to be bigger than for drama series, there is a limit to the number of characters available at any one time. This allows the soap to focus on a smaller number of characters, thus allowing more time to be spent on each, so that the audience knows them better and the storylines can be more detailed and involved, as well as being more numerous over time.
-The plots are open-ended and usually many storylines are featured or even interlinked in an episode. Often they follow the same issue. The storylines in these cases run parallel.
Location- The storyline and settings are all centred around the main place e.g. village or city.
Storyline- never ending story lines, Mulitiple plots and characters, interwoven storylines, moral nature of storylines, social and domestic settings, strong female characters and simplified characters.
Youth/ Issue based-
Story line- TV shows aimed at youths, situations surrounded around the youth group.
Fantasy-
Story line- magic, supernatural things, and fantasy or parallel worlds as a setting. Usuall it is all about good and evil and the triumph of one over the other.
Crime/Medical -
Story line- They follow a patient or civillian or policeman or doctor in need of assistance. Each episode focuses on one main plot with other less important sub plots that surround it.
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