research based on key directors of popular British and American soaps and how both kinds of soaps are different and similar and what key characteristics are used within common soaps.

1. By Teegan Mulqueen-Jeffery

2.  John Greening 1996
 Michael Owen Morris 2003
 Clive Arnold 2000-2013
 Steve Finn 1995
 Karl Neilson 2001
 Peter Rose 2003- 2010
 Jamie Annett 1998-2012
 Richard Platt 2000-2012

3.  Directors :
 Simon Massey 1994-1996
 Tony Prescott 1995
 June Howson 1967- 1969
 Stuart Davids 1995-1997
 Bill Podmore 1960s-1970s
 Audrey Cooke 2013
 Tim Dowd 1994

4.  Directors:
 Lee Salisbury 2006
 Tony Prescott 2003-2013
 Tim O’Mara 2001
 Michael Lacey 2008
 Alan Wareing 1993
 John Anderson 2001
 Piotr Szkopiak 2003
 Judith Dine 2000

5.  Directors:
 Paul Riordon 2008
 Steve Brett 2008-2014
 Nigel Keen 2008
 Nicky Higgens 2007
 Lee skelly 2009
 Penelope Shales 2007
 Sean Glynn 2007
 Eddy Marshall 2006-2013

6. Albert Alarr: 2003-2015
Jim Baffico : 2004-2007
Sonia Blangiardo: 2015
Kathryn Foster: 2007-2008
Christopher Goutman:2011

7.  There are loads of different types of characteristics that soap
operas use to show within their storylines and characters. Soaps
often use drama, love and tragedy when it comes to family's,
relationships and murders/deaths , sometimes humour is used
to lighten up the tragedy
 Soaps also deal with many different controversial issues
including HIV, homosexuality, rape, euthanasia, sudden infant
death syndrome and struggles with religion and faith.
 Main characters you will find in an soap opera are: the underdog,
the super villain, the straight laced good guy, the bungler etc.
 Soap operas examines the lives of everyday people, focusing on
emotional relationships to the point of melodrama, therefore
they take the research they make from observing reality and over
exaggerate and over act it so that it comes entertainment but
also relating as well.

8.  The main characteristics that define soap operas
are an emphasis on family life, personal
relationships, sexual dramas, emotional moral
conflicts; some coverage of topical issues; set in
familiar domestic interiors with only occasional
excursions into new locations. To fit in with these
characteristics , most soap operas follow the lives
of a group of characters who live or work in a
particular place, or focus on a large extended
family , or a particular class and status. This is
found in soaps like EastEnders where the show is
mostly based around the Mitchel family or a
family member.

9.  In us soaps the characters are frequently attractive,
seductive, glamourous and wealthy. The British and
Australian soaps like Coronation Street and Neighbours
tend to explore social realist storyline and portray a more
realistic style, mainly focusing on the working class,
furthermore UK and Australian soaps tend to have a
comical element however this diverges from US soaps
where an element of comedy is limited.
 Romance, secret relationships, extramarital affairs,
genuine love have been the basis of many soap operas
storylines, in US daytime serials, the most popular soap
opera characters and storylines, often have a romance
presented within the episode. Though U.S. daytime soap
operas are not generally rerun by their networks,
occasionally they are rebroadcast elsewhere.