Research: American Soap Operas

Comparisons made from British Soap Operas:

- Serve different purposes to British soap operas. (British is generally working class, gritty, problems) Hollyoaks is more glamorous and TOWIE is a scripted real life situation.

- American soap opera tends to be much more glamorous and a lot more escapist.

- People have unattainable lifestyles to make the audience feel good.

- Beautiful actors who always have a perfect appearance.

- Melodramatics (based more around emotional drama leading to love dramas, affairs, secret family etc.. Feminine genre to be aimed at the female housewife audience)

- They can run in seasons where as British soaps are continuous.

- Soundtracks make it more melodramatic, diegetic, tells audience how to feel.