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Q1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? We used sites such as YouTube and watched soap trailers such as EastEnders and Coronation Street on TV to gain a wider perspective of the codes and conventions that soap operas follow. We then decided which features we would use and which ones we would challenge. Used Conventions: Stock Settings: We decided to follow the general meeting point for soaps i.e. Queen Vic in EastEnders. For our soap, we used the King William IV pub, as it upheld to traditional and rural feel of the town, and provided a nice setting for us to base our soap on. The pub also provided as a base for many drama filled events, and a pub was also suitable as it was traditionally used as a place for many characters to drink, exchange stories and just have overall social gatherings, which could always end up in drama, making a pub the perfect place for a stock setting. Stock Narratives: Another convention we kept were the overly- dramatic storylines that soaps thrive on. We felt that these were imperative to our soap as it would be what our target audience look for and what would also act as the 'hook' for our soap. Without using these, our soap would be lifeless and would be of no real appeal to anyone. An example of some dramatic features of our soap is the vandalism of the car.

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Q1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We used sites such as YouTube and watched soap trailers such as EastEnders and Coronation Street on TV to gain a wider perspective of the codes and conventions that soap operas follow. We then decided which features we would use and which ones we would challenge.

Used Conventions:Stock Settings:  We decided to follow the general meeting point for soaps i.e. Queen Vic in EastEnders. For our soap, we used the King William IV pub, as it upheld to traditional and rural feel of the town, and provided a nice setting for us to base our soap on. The pub also provided as a base for many drama filled events, and a pub was also suitable as it was 

traditionally used as a place for many characters to drink, exchange stories and just have overall social gatherings, which could always end up in drama, making a pub the perfect 

place for a stock setting.

Stock Narratives: Another convention we kept were the overly-dramatic storylines that soaps thrive on. We felt that these were imperative to our soap as it would be what our 

target audience look for and what would also act as the 'hook' for our soap. Without using 

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these, our soap would be lifeless and would be of no real appeal to anyone. An example of some dramatic features of our soap is the vandalism of the car. 

Developing Conventions:As well as keeping some conventions, we felt it would be beneficial for our soap if we 

developed some, as we felt this would give our soap a sense of individuality and identity. An example of a convention that we developed was the sense of community. Whilst other 

soaps such as Coronation Street and EastEnders have one, large community in their soap, we felt it would be more fitting to gather two communities, the 'townies' and 'countries'. By doing this we created a sense of conflict and opposition as well as a sense of community and 

belonging, which promised dramatic story lines.

Stock Settings: We have chosen, in our soap to set the pub in the old village, with predominantly only the country’s coming to drink there. This allowed us to inject a bit of ‘gossip’ into the soap as it can be used for a place for the country’s to slate the townies 

privately, allowing for storylines to develop and for the understanding of certain characters to improve.

Stock Characters: We have kept the ‘troubled teen’ stock character from soaps e.g. Ben Mitchell etc. However, in our soap we have made these characters the main focus of the 

soap.

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Challenging Conventions:We also felt it would be interesting and beneficial for our soap if we challenged some 

conventions. A list of conventions we challenged are:

The protagonist - The protagonist in our soap is seen as a villain, rather than a hero. Conflict - In soaps such as EastEnders, there in conflict intermittently, it's not a 

constant event, in our soap, we made conflict one of the main priorities. Predominantly young characters. Other soaps such as EastEnders have old characters e.g. Dot Cotton, Victor etc. We felt it would be more beneficial if we 

focused on young people’s lives as they are more dramatic on the whole