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Soap operas are on-going and may continue for a long time. Some conventions are:

  • Set in a particular place
  • Shown on TV
  • Focus on family life and personal relationships
  • Based on a group of characters living in a particular place
  • Romance, love and secret relationship are in most storylines.
  • Focus on working-class communities.
  • Everyday situations and relationships
  • Multi stranded narratives
  • No relation to outside world (What happens in the real world doesn't affect the characters in the soap)
  • sponsors - (soap operas are funded by product placement)
  • not unlikely narratives ( but unlikely for them all to happen to the same people in the same village / street)
  • Creates realism ( placement of clocks, diegetic sound, ect)
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