Research: Soap settings

Soaps are often set within a small community, with a well known regional identity, where everyone knows everyone else and gossip is easily passed around.  These locations have typical meeting places within the community which are easily recognisable to the audience as being from that soap.

• Private conversations between fewer characters and more personal socialising e.g. families or partners: characters own homes.
• Public meeting places for socialising and sharing news of local events within the community: Local pub/cafe, market square, park, corner shop, laundrettes.

EastEnders Queen Vic and Laundrette