Analyzation Of An Eastenders Episode

The episode of Eastenders that I analyzed is from Thursday 3rd November 2011

The kind of characters that appear in this episode was teenagers (Ben and Lola etc), an asian family (The Masoods (to generalise different cultures)), a gay couple (Christian and Syed) and single mum (Roxy) and party people (Kim).

I do respond emotionally for some characters in Eastenders because the producers, writer or directors always zoom upon the character's face so the audience could get their genuine emotion, which is very effective because it makes it clear on what emotion the character is feeling e.g. remorse, sad, gulity, angry etc. And in this particular episode of Eastenders, I felt sorry for Christian and it was resultant because the close up camera shot lasted for a longer period than other shots so the audience could get a view on how Christian is feeling.

I don't think all audiences respond in the same way to the characters because each character in Eastenders is different (as in culture, background, ethncity, gender, morality etc) therefore each member of the audience would relate to each character differently. For example, in Christian's situation, a gay member of the audience might relate to him more because they share the same sexuality. It is very practical that Eastenders did that as it would attract more of a range of target audiences and not just one specific social group or class.

I do believe, the producers, writers and /director is trying to get me to respond in a particular way to the characters because they wanted to create an emotional atmosphere by making the scene silent so we could only concentrate on the character's image and their true emotions.

The characters are very realistic because the cast are from different ethnicity, gender, cultures etc which would generalise to a diverse range of the society. Also, the characters are realistic because the writers make the characters go through real life situations, that could help a member of the audience that is going through it, For Example, one of this month's main stories is from Tanya who has breast cancer, and other patients who are suffering from breast cancer could relate to her.