Analysing The Hollyoaks "Asian Family"
The Roy Family Characters:
Ravi-Brain tumour
Laila-rebel and extremely great in creativity, even though her parents expect her achieve more higher.
Anita-anorexia, bullying, racism School girl that lives a life of hell
Mother & Father have left the show for now..
I decided to take a deeper insight into the British Asian families within soaps.
My main research was based on Hollyoaks as my group had decided the specific soaps we would focus on.
Due to many posts on the internet that Hollyoaks needed an Asian family, they finally hired Asian characters and presented each character in a way that helped people become more familiar with the behaviour, the culture and their reaction to the racist comments that they have in real life. This adds realism as it emphasises just now important bringing multi-cultural characters into the soap to enable more interest in the audiences.
Being able to bring an Asian family will help us get further insight into how we can encourage our Asian characters to bring in their cultural ethnicity and offer our audience a more realistic viewing on what problems would arise in their current lives and what other situations may happen that anyone else can relate to.
The next step we have to achieve is maintaing a specific atmosphere, to ensure that our Asian scene is as succesfful as our wedding scene, to do this we need to carefully select our props and background, perhaps persuade the characters to bring in traditional clothing to set the mood or we could discuss whether these characters are modern Asians, therefore wearing normal modern clothing such as jeans, like in the contemporary UK now, these little changes such as clothing, way of speech & actions will show the audience that this family is different to others, more vibrant in terms of their decisions and more free in the aspect of traditional morals, therefore can go out for longer, their outrageous storylines can represent the panic within Asian families and the day to day problems they face, for example the things that are looked down upon, such as divorce, pork consumption etc.
Hollyoaks demonstrated this through Anita, who drank and was introduced to drugs, following her ordeal with peer pressure and longing to blend in with a "perfect" in her world) society, she manages to spin out of control just to prove shes dangerous. We hope to introduce this panic phase and the abrupt connection within the family through out characters, the next plan is to choose our characters.
The next step we have to achieve is maintaing a specific atmosphere, to ensure that our Asian scene is as succesfful as our wedding scene, to do this we need to carefully select our props and background, perhaps persuade the characters to bring in traditional clothing to set the mood or we could discuss whether these characters are modern Asians, therefore wearing normal modern clothing such as jeans, like in the contemporary UK now, these little changes such as clothing, way of speech & actions will show the audience that this family is different to others, more vibrant in terms of their decisions and more free in the aspect of traditional morals, therefore can go out for longer, their outrageous storylines can represent the panic within Asian families and the day to day problems they face, for example the things that are looked down upon, such as divorce, pork consumption etc.
Hollyoaks demonstrated this through Anita, who drank and was introduced to drugs, following her ordeal with peer pressure and longing to blend in with a "perfect" in her world) society, she manages to spin out of control just to prove shes dangerous. We hope to introduce this panic phase and the abrupt connection within the family through out characters, the next plan is to choose our characters.
I think this piece of work is good as it justapoxes with our idea of starring an asian family in our soap. From your analysis, we can gety some ideas of how asian families are portrayed within soaps; this could add to realism and help make our targeted audiences relate to it. Eg. An Asian famaly could relate to our storyline a similar situatiion.
ReplyDelete^^^btw its barbara^^^
ReplyDeleteYes i agree this work is good, unfortuantely we would have been finished filming this scene but due to misunderstandings in our group we have re scheduled this scene for another day, hopefully this time we will go as planned and produce good filming skills!
ReplyDeletei totally agree all the ideas written above good work Group
PRINCE
When are we filming our " Asian family" scene?
ReplyDeleteBarbara
After half term =)
ReplyDeleteWe have to make sure though that we get all our characters and book the place we want to use, by the way, im rethinking that place, Its too small and we are gonna have difficulty making sure the props/scenery add more effect.
Whos seen an asian family with a small packed room made of wood and bare wall? HAHA =)
Speak to you lot tomorrow, good work so far =)
Yana x