For our A2 media coursework, research and planning is key in creating a quintessential portfolio. We will have to include a number of different elements in order for our portfolio.
Research:

• We will analyse a range of comparable texts that are of our genre. These will include such soap operas as Eastenders, Hollyoaks and Coronation Street.
• Analysing camera shots and angles.
• The use of audio and the subsequent effects it has upon the audience.
• The codes and conventions of particular genres of soaps and how this makes them work and appeal to their intended target audience.
• The contemplation of the audience as a general whole, and the ways in which media elements create a bond.
• Also we will research into the institutions that produce the work and how they make their work a success.
• By researching older examples of soap operas we will be able to understand the development and the changes that they have encountered over the years and find out why this has happened.