Soap Operas
The soap opera genre originated from American radio in the 1930’s, and owes its name to the sponsorship of the programs by large soap powder companies. They were targeted at women, particularly housewives, and designed to entertain, without distracting them from there daily chores while their husband was out working. They were formulated to be “easy listening” and numerous Storylines woven into one episode. Basically unlike radio plays or melodramas, there were no ending points only ending storylines. Part of this assignment is to review modern day Soap operas, which have now evolved to Television and to examine the ideolology and certain traditions behind them. I included a recording of Eastenders, which was taken from UK Gold. It was interesting to breakdown the Scene and analyze the technical details as well as the subtext of the program. The title sequence, is very simple, it began in the river Thames, for about half a second the screen is completely green, then very quickly, accompanied by the familiar theme, the camera zoomed out, whilst rotating clockwise to revel a colour map of London ( Interestingly not just of the East end of London). The River Thames remaining cen
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Scene Eastenders, Dynasty American, Julia Smith, Eastenders Involved, UK Gold, Brief History, Entertainment Scandal, Villain Bitch, Soap Operas, River Thames, soap opera, soap operas, soap opera genre, british soaps, coronation street, opera genre, map london, camera angles, uk gold, river thames, responsible manner, applied british soap,
Approximate Word count = 1952
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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