American & British Soap Opera’s

- American soap operas serve different purposes to British soap opera.- British soap - Scripted reality, for example TOWIE.- American Soaps are very glamorous, escapist, dream world which is the opposite the

British soaps which are made for the public to relate to. - Melodramatic, emotional stories, feminine genre.- Actors all very beautiful and have a “Perfect” appearance. - Scheduling “Daytime drama”.- Some American soap operas run in seasons unlike British ones that are ongoing and

continuous. - Usually have outlandish storylines that don’t make sense.- Contain non-diegetic sound which tells the viewer how to feel also making the

scenes seem dramatic and quite unrealistic.