Analysis and Review of Hollyoaks
Devised by Phil Redmond, Hollyoaks is an evening weekday soap, lasting
for half an hour. It is mostly aimed at young people from the ages of
16-24. Hollyoaks was first broadcasted on the 23rd October 1995, and
has attracted an average of 3 million viewers each week.
The target audience is young adults from the age of 16-24, who are
students of a variety of classes, I know this because when watching
the episode there are lots of stories about University live and
drinking which people of this age group are familiar to.
Everyday student live is being represented in Hollyoaks. The stories
and situations vary including bullying, exams, drinking, and
relationships and live at university. Hollyoaks has very few ethnic
minorities, mostly the people are white. The actors include many
attractive males (to attract females) and attractive females (to
attract men), because if they are interested in the people acting then
they are going to more likely involved in the story and carry on
watching the episodes till the end. Generally soaps use unknown actors
to give the sense of watching “real” people.
The ideology in Hollyoaks is that student live and being young is
great but has its up’s and down’s. The good things about being a
student is being able to do what ever you want when you want, and
having responsibility to do what you want, such as drinking but the
hard parts of being a student are exams and revising, also putting up
with people you don’t like and bullies.
The institution is Channel 4, Mersey television. The narrative to
Hollyoaks is linear with a break in the middle. Some language is slang
that young people will understand such as “fit” for someone who they
think is attractive; this language will appeal to young people so they
can understand the programme better and be more involved.
Hollyoaks always starts off with the theme tune so we can recognise
that it is about to start and finish, also at the beginning of each
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