Hollyoaks Soap Opera Ebony Solomons

1. Hollyoaks Soap Opera Ebony Solomons

2. Hollyoaksbackground information • It was first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1995. • The programme is set in and around the fictional Chester suburb of Hollyoaks and is centred around a local higher education college with the characters generally being in their late teens or early twenties. • The cast has expanded from 7 to approximately 50 characters.

3. How is Britain represented in Hollyoaks? • Multi-cultural • Majority are teenagers • Problems- such as drugs, smoking and alcohol • Range of family types- nuclear, extended and single parent • Range of classes • Relationship complications • Close community • Middle class

4. Fair/ accurate representation? • Hollyoaks is quite an accurate representation of Britain as a place, because it has the conventions of a typical town, for example shops, park, bar and pub. • A range of people are represented which reflects modern Britain such as it becoming more multi-cultural. • It is accurate in the way that different places are represented, such as the student houses and then family houses. • Relates to real life stories

5. Are the characters stereotypes themselves? • The target audience for Hollyoaks is teenagers, the majority of characters are teenagers. • Stereotypes of the teenagers- young pregnancies, drugs, smoking and alcohol • There are the typical and stereotypical ‘bad boys’