Analyzing Eastenders

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Analyzing Eastenders For my GCSE media coursework I have been asked to write about and analyse a television soap or series. During the course of the assignment I will be explaining the following; Definitions of soaps and series, Marketing, Merchandising, Audience, Timings, Plot/Issues, Sub - plot, Characters. I have chosen to write about the popular soap, Eastenders. Eastenders is a fictional drama soap about a small community living in East London. A soap is a television program that is all about peoples daily lives and the events that happen. Soaps are ongoing, contemporary dramas. Contemporary means that the plots and storylines are all based on on real - life events that can and do happen to real people. Ongoing means the plot of the soap is held out over the episodes. It is continous. Soaps can be split into different categories such as, countryside soaps, city soaps, or police soaps. Emmerdale is an example of countryside soap, Coronation Street and Eastenders, as city soaps, and The Bill as a police soap. The reason television soaps are called soaps is because the soap used to be advertised on the side of soap packets. Soaps always end with a cliffhanger. When I say cliffhanger, I mean that the writers leave an episode with high tension. This leaves the viewers wondering what will happen next, so they need watch the next episode to see how the plot unfolds. On the other hand, television series have a different way of keeping the viewers interested. At the end of the episode they show you a sneak preview of what will be happening in the next episode. I don't think this is a g... ... middle of paper ... ... she really can be a frightful person to be near. She is also uses people. She once made friends with a man called Terry, just to get her hands on his money and have a job and a place to stay. Underneath, Janine is lost and insecure, she has no family near her, and I think she just wants someone to care for her. She is very good at pretending to be something she is not. But, I would still like to be Janine because she knows how to have fun and is very witty. Janine also knows how to take care of herself. These are the reasons I admire her. I watch Eastenders because overall, I find the program is really realistic because they don't exaggerate the issues too much - unlike other soaps. It is also fun and easy to watch. It doesn't matter if you miss one or two episodes because it is so easy to catch up on the plot.

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