I decided to analyse the opening title sequences for 'Hollyoaks'. I feel this will benefit me and my group when we are deciding final ideas for our own soap. We hope to take ideas both positive and negative and apply them to ours to make it the best it can be. Things like music type, colours, pictures and even the length of it will be taken into consideration and applied to our existing knowledge of soaps.
Shows each character one after the other and allows them to act out an action that represents them, for example Ravi is hitting a punching bag in his clip which shows his sporty, athletic personality and “skin”, meaning how people see him.
The background is mainly plain or with spiral lights or wallpaper. The plain backgrounds represent a blank canvas which allows the character to let their personality paint the background. The spiral lights show how their lives are spiralling out of their own control and how they are involved in many different storylines. The wallpaper background, however, could represent a fake front put on by the person, either to hide or to cover up some sort of fault in their own personality.
The opening begins with a woman’s eye with “Hollyoaks” written in it, this could show how the audience gets to view the whole of Hollyoaks village. At the end, the “o’s” in Hollyoaks have male and female sex symbols which join together and zoom forward to the screen to allow the episode to start.
The background is mainly plain or with spiral lights or wallpaper. The plain backgrounds represent a blank canvas which allows the character to let their personality paint the background. The spiral lights show how their lives are spiralling out of their own control and how they are involved in many different storylines. The wallpaper background, however, could represent a fake front put on by the person, either to hide or to cover up some sort of fault in their own personality.
The opening begins with a woman’s eye with “Hollyoaks” written in it, this could show how the audience gets to view the whole of Hollyoaks village. At the end, the “o’s” in Hollyoaks have male and female sex symbols which join together and zoom forward to the screen to allow the episode to start.
I feel that researching the opening credits of 'Hollyoaks' has benefited me and my group. I found that by using an up-beat tune in the title sequence that the soap would generally appeal to a younger audience whilst a soap like 'Eastenders' has a neutral tune and beat that would appeal to a range of ages.
A catchy tune would appeal to a younger audience. This is evident because whilst I was watching the opening credits, my class mates were standing around me singing and humming along to the tune.
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