Soap Opera Conventions

 A serialised drama on television, on for most working days that runs week in week out, all year.

· Representation of society

· Cliff hanger

· Continuous narrative

· Narrative has moral messages and values

· Audience ideologies/relation to audience

· Amplifies real life issues for audience attention

· Plots are open ended and feature interlinked narratives through various episodes.

· Storylines run in parallel fashion

· Recognisable title sequence and theme tune.

· Red herrings

· Never really reaches a resolution

· Comical stereotypes

· Dominant/controversial views

· Follows factual time/Reflects on real time events

· Social Class Representation

· Melodramatic/Sensationalised

· Sense of realism

· Regional accents

· Gender role representation

· Representation of sexuality and ethnicity

· Drama based genre