1. Hollyoaks Soap Opera Ebony Solomons

2. Hollyoaks background 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’