Barb Figures on Soap Operas

BARB Figures

BBC1
w/e 28 Aug 2011 (Millions)

1 NEW TRICKS (MON 2100) 9.28
2 EASTENDERS (FRI 2000) 8.90
3 EASTENDERS (THU 1930) 8.73
4 EASTENDERS (TUE 1929) 8.54
5 EASTENDERS (MON 2000) 8.23
6 DOCTOR WHO (SAT 1910) 8.10
7 COUNTRYFILE (SUN 2000) 5.76
8 TEN O'CLOCK NEWS (MON 2200) 5.59
9 TEN O'CLOCK NEWS (TUE 2200) 5.53
10 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? (WED 2100) 5.45

ITV1
w/e 28 Aug 2011 (Millions)

1 THE X FACTOR (SAT 2000) 10.63
2 CORONATION STREET (MON 1932) 8.16
3 CORONATION STREET (MON 2032) 8.11
4 CORONATION STREET (FRI 2031) 7.87
5 CORONATION STREET (FRI 1932) 7.68
6 CORONATION STREET (THU 2031) 7.43
7 EMMERDALE (THU 1959) 7.00
8 EMMERDALE (MON 1901) 6.70
9 EMMERDALE (FRI 1901) 6.57
10 EMMERDALE (THU 1901) 6.55

Most Popular Episodes

Which have been Coronation Street’s most watched episodes?

Hilda’s farewell – 26.6 million
Deirdre/Mike/Ken love triangle – 20 million
Richard Hillman’s confession – 19.4 million
Alan Bradley under tram – 19 million
Deirdre sent to prison – 18.9 million
Fiona left at the aisle – 17.5 million
Don dies on screen – 17.3 million
Don tries to kill Alma – 17 million
Mike and Linda’s wedding – 15.8 million
Sarah Lou teen pregnancy – 15 million
Steve and Karen wedding – 15 million

Poster inital ideas

Above is annotated inital ideas for our poster.

Magazine cover inital ideas

Above in annotated inital ideas for our soap opera magazine covers.

Soap Opera Magazine / Listings Magazine Titles

Mag inital

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Characters From Other Soaps with Generic Conventions Of Characters

Children 3 different soaps

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Myself and my group created the character profiles in order to gain a wider understanding of how these characters would be portrayed in our soap opera. We have tried to base our characters on typical characters found in soap operas. For example: stronge women, gangstar men and pregnant teenager. We hoped that the character profiles would help us relate to our characters and create them so they relate to our target audience. We also added images of different soap opera and film characters that we found defined their role. Here is the character profiles I created.

Soap opera Poster Analysis

Soap Opera Poster 1


Soap Opera Posters 3


I analysised two soap opera posters in order to develop my knowledge within soap operas and knowledge within posters. I wanted to know the common conventions within a soap opera poster before my group made our own soap opera poster.
I learnt about how to use, costume, lighting, characters, and use of text which will help me a lot when it comes to making my own soap opera poster.

Soap Opera Magazines Analysis

Soap mag

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Soap mag 2

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I looked at these two soap opera magazines as they are both popular and show all genertic conventions of a soap opera magazine. As they show all the generic conventions of a soap opera magazine it was easy to gain knowledge and find interesting points on the magazine which we could then use on our own soap opera magazine.