Narrative

our trailer showed multiple narratives happening to one character. the reason we chose these narratives was to use conventional themes from a soap opera and also to give the audience an idea of the content of our soap opera. the narratives we chose were:

- relationship problems
- family problems
- school problems
- bullying
- drugs
- social ostracism

These narratives target our audience as they are common to teenagers living in an urban environment and these are the narrative strands that we would have explored through our series of programmes had we made the series. I think they are effective in a soap as they fulfills three purposes.
1. They attract the target audience - the uses and gratifications theory states that an audience looks for people to connect with in their media and this character is someone they can relate to.
2. The narrative fulfills the genre requirements
3. The narrative gives an outline of the themes that will be explored in the soap therefore giving information to the target audience and fulfilling another purpose.