Soap Opera Whole Episode Analysis

Coronation street

URL:http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=252020&module=carousel&title=coronation-street&referrer=home&item=3

Number of Characters in the episode - 20

Types of characters: There is a range of different ages within the characters as well as characters that have been on the programme for years and quite new characters. The majority of the characters are shown as middle class, some characters own the pub or there own businesses which could show them as upper class but they aren't stereotypically shown as upper class in the way they act.

Setting: Houses, pub, cafe, shops, factory and the street.

Scenes in an episode – 15

Story lines evident:
War of the Websters, Sophie and Sian's romance, Toxic Tracy, Steve and Becky's Baby Plight, John's Double Life and Leanne's Love Triangle.

Other: Disability is shown with the character of Izzy as she is a regular cast member in a wheel chair.

Emmerdale

URL: http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=248748

Number of characters: 22

Types of characters: There is a wide variety of characters within emmerdale, all the different classes are shown for example the Dingles as lower class, to the Macey family as the upper class.

Setting: The local pub has the regular customers, all characters that are in the episode are all filmed in the pub at one point within the episode.
The other main settings are the local farms, the characters house and the cafe.

Number of scenes: 15

Story lines evident: Affair between Ella and her daughters boyfriend, the helped suicide of Jackson, by his mum and boyfriend, funeral planning and a new born baby.

Other:
There is a mix of classes for example - Ella, Mia and Declan are the very upper class and the lower class are the Dingle family.
The upper class characters = Going to hotels, business meetings, running there own businesses and owning a large house.
The lower class characters = Going to the local pub and working in the businesses that are owned by the upper class.

I have done this research in order to find out exactly what an full soap opera episode includes, I have looked at the number of characters, their personalities and what they are like, the settings that are used within the episodes, the number of scenes and the story lines that are evident. Now that I have an idea of what is in a whole soap opera episode I will be able to look at what I should include in just the trailer.