Saturday 5 November 2011

Soap conventions and codes.

Soap conventions.
The conventions for a soap that will be expected to be in soap episodes, these are subjects that are seen on the soaps:
  • Pub
  • Murder
  • Theme Tunes
  • Cliff Hangers
  • Village/Town
  • Villain and Hero
  • Affairs
  • Dramatic Irony
  • Violence

Soap Codes
There are codes that are in soaps to bring feeling to the audience which are in the categories Camera shots, Editing, Sound and Mise-en-Scene. The one i am going to be talking about which will bring tension to the soap is crosscutting which is under editing. This is when the editor will cut one scene and switch to the next scene to bring tension. So for example two people would be talk about how they are going to hide the dead body and before they say where they are going to put it, they then switch to another scene to make us want to know what they were going to say. So that brought tension because we want to know what they are going to do witht he body.



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