Revenge Genre (Soap)
- Created by: jordananna
- Created on: 05-06-14 00:16
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- TV: Revenge Genre (Soap)
- Typical Situations
- Unknown death - gunshots and body
- Blackmail - photographic evidence - innocent man sent to prision
- Break-up's and relationship problems / affairs
- Engagement party - friends and family
- Disruption - death at the party (murder)
- False accusations - David framed for downing of flight 197 - terrorist
- Crime scene - death
- Poor family - Jack needs to sell his boat to pay of the bar debts
- Best friend - sleeping with her husband - Victoria and Lydia
- Themes
- Big family events - Graysons
- Reinvented life - Amanda / Emily
- Quest for truth - who killer her father?
- Frenimies - Lydia and Victoria - false friends
- Drama in families - arguments and lies
- Iconography
- Cheating / affair - love triangle between Victoria, Conrad and Lydia
- Arguments and jealously
- Flashy cars, which appeals to male audience
- Flashback with family photos
- Death - gun, dead body
- FBI and Police officers - when David was arrested
- Setting
- Hamptons - Queen of the community Victoria
- Local pub - Stowaway - Jacks Bar
- Certain settings trigger flashbacks
- Jail - 18 year old Emily leaving prison and being visited by Nolan
- Stock Characters
- Victoria
- Has money and status - hides her past to keep up appearance
- Conrad
- Unfaithful husband - controlled by Victoria and weaker man
- Porter Fmaily
- Struggle to keep the bar- financial problems
- Conrad
- Powerful business man - CEO
- Victoria
- Style
- Large family home - expensive and clean cut - show home and not personal
- Victoria has her own chair - her 'thrown' and more dominant
- Stairways both high and low angles - dominance and power
- Fake sand to make beach look real - use of green screen
- Desaturated colour palette - in the prison scene - contrast to high key lighting in the Hamptons
- Typical Situations
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