Friday, 14 October 2011

How does this extract from EastEnders demonstrate soap conventions?

  • Naturalistic, high key, lighting - both inside (characters houses) and outside (the market)
  • Editing - only using hard cuts throughout 
  • Camerawork - mostly mid-shots
  • Ongoing narrative is evident, for example, family conflicts - teenager skiving school, habit.
  • Location - popular, social meeting places where the characters can mingle, for example, The Queen Vic.
  • Sound - diagetic, apart from the theme tune at the beginning and end.
  • Character representation - Typical teenager, skiving school.
                                                  -Young mum, trying to do the best for her daughter.

  
 

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