Character Types

For part of our research, we had to look into set Soaps and dramas and analyse what set character types are involved. It would be pointless to try and create our own types of characters, when we can mirror currently avaliable characters. For example, the character 'Phil Mitchell' on Eastenders is the quitesentiall representation of a bully, yet still has fatherly instincts and tries to withold the sense of a nuclear family, although this is not always the actual outcome.

When looking into Character Types, we also have to look at what makes certain characters attractive to the audience, which involves the values and effectively, the morals of certain audience members. For example, it is likely that a Nuclear family would have similar values to that of a nuclear family on a Soap drama, as they can relate to the morals and values protrayed by the family. The Dingles on Emmerdale are a perfect representation of this, in the sense that their lives involve relatively typical events, common in reality; yet they still have the stereotypical functions of a nuclear family.

Of course, Soaps such as Eastenders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale each attract different audiences for different reasons. This is something we will have to further study with examples in the future, in order to learn what features are incoporated