What are the Most Important Factors of a Soap?

Part of our research involved us looking into what people simply liked to view in regards to a Soap, and what they felt the most integral part of a Soap was, or what made it. Arguably, all three of our options listed are integral to a Soap and must be included for it too look legitimate. However, our question was what would they rather see going on, and the camera focussed upon. As you can see from the graph on the left, characters appear to be the most essential part of a Soap, defining it. Meanwhile, Location in fact did the worst, which we were very surprised about. Deeper analysis however shows good reason behind this thought. Location is simply a place, and is something that the audience can deal with and simply get on with. But because people, are people, the audience as a whole feels a need to get along with them so that they can continue to watch the soap, or in the trailer's case, watch it for the first time. As such, our media filming will take place primarily centred around characters, with locations being a secondary, and perhaps even tertiary aspect of our trailer, if these results are anything to go by.