Media starter task

Genre: How a media text is categorised based on certain codes and conventions.
Sub-Genre: further division of the genre of media.
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Coronation Street
Eastenders
Emmerdale
Hollyoaks
Neighbours
Doctors
Home and Away
Days of Our Lives
Sunset Beach

British TV soaps are:

On-going.
Have Overlapping narratives so as one storyline ends another takes its place.
Narratives are usually melodramatic focus on emotional issues.
Stories take several episodes to resolve.
Usually 23mins per episode.
Scheduled in the same prime-time slot consistently and scheduled to broadcast more than
one episode per week.
Have a strong regional identity which is linked to the class of characters.
Use social and gender stereotypes to convey meaning quickly.