Analysis and Review of Hollyoaks

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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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