How television soap drama uses media to deliver real life issues to the audience? How do they target a specific type of audience or can everyone relate to it. This essay is going to explain how Hollyoaks (soap drama) reflects on real life issues. As an example, in Hollyoaks they have an actors playing a serial killer that is being searched by the police, this was filmed to show to the audience that these things really happen in real life. This could refer to when woman’s are abused and killed in real life through social networking by meeting stranger through the internet. (http://www.oddee.com/item_98917.aspx)
The overall argument for this essay is that if the soap operas help people to relate to what happens in their life. The case study …show more content…
Also, the research’s show that home office worked with Hollyoaks to make an advert about this situation and most importantly, they have an Abuse campaign that they both run together.
The key concept of this essay is how they have used the emotional and domestic abuse as a plot for Maxine Minniver Blake (played by Nikki Sanderson) and Patrick Blake (played by Jeremy Sheffield), which has been voted as the best ever storyline on Channel 4 soap’s.
Maxine and Patrick are a happy couple, but behind closed doors Patrick abuses Maxine first emotionally. Then it leads to a stage where that she gets abused by him physically every time she does something that he is not happy with. In the drama itself no one notices it at first but the audience use semiotics to see what is going to happen and what has happed.
In general signs help us to decipher piece we use to decode meanings, for example the STOP sign background is the signifier and the word itself is the signified. In soap drams the signifier is the materiality the sign, which includes images, sounds and objects but on the other hand signified is the idea, which mean the metal …show more content…
Also, it seems like that this matter is a feminist situation.
In conclusion case study was used to the mainly to focus on the topic domestic abuse and how they have used soap drama Hollyoaks to deliver it to people. Domestic abuse is something that had to be raised to people somehow and it was a fantastic idea not to use the media directly as a documentary. Instead they have used the media soap drama, which can be reached out to all audiences as many people do not like documentaries.
Referring to the question I mentioned at the beginning of the essay about if the soap operas help people to relate to what happens in their life. The answer is yes because may people in relationship get abused not just physically but emotionally as well. At first they might thing this is just once but later on it will continually happen again and again. Maybe for another example teenage pregnancy is shown on the soap opera Hollyoaks all the time because nowadays many teenage girls get pregnant. The show shows that how they handle these
The overall argument for this essay is that if the soap operas help people to relate to what happens in their life. The case study …show more content…
Also, the research’s show that home office worked with Hollyoaks to make an advert about this situation and most importantly, they have an Abuse campaign that they both run together.
The key concept of this essay is how they have used the emotional and domestic abuse as a plot for Maxine Minniver Blake (played by Nikki Sanderson) and Patrick Blake (played by Jeremy Sheffield), which has been voted as the best ever storyline on Channel 4 soap’s.
Maxine and Patrick are a happy couple, but behind closed doors Patrick abuses Maxine first emotionally. Then it leads to a stage where that she gets abused by him physically every time she does something that he is not happy with. In the drama itself no one notices it at first but the audience use semiotics to see what is going to happen and what has happed.
In general signs help us to decipher piece we use to decode meanings, for example the STOP sign background is the signifier and the word itself is the signified. In soap drams the signifier is the materiality the sign, which includes images, sounds and objects but on the other hand signified is the idea, which mean the metal …show more content…
Also, it seems like that this matter is a feminist situation.
In conclusion case study was used to the mainly to focus on the topic domestic abuse and how they have used soap drama Hollyoaks to deliver it to people. Domestic abuse is something that had to be raised to people somehow and it was a fantastic idea not to use the media directly as a documentary. Instead they have used the media soap drama, which can be reached out to all audiences as many people do not like documentaries.
Referring to the question I mentioned at the beginning of the essay about if the soap operas help people to relate to what happens in their life. The answer is yes because may people in relationship get abused not just physically but emotionally as well. At first they might thing this is just once but later on it will continually happen again and again. Maybe for another example teenage pregnancy is shown on the soap opera Hollyoaks all the time because nowadays many teenage girls get pregnant. The show shows that how they handle these