A Level Media

Hi people
This is quite a specific requirement but if anyone watches the soaps Hollyoaks, or Eastenders, can you please give me your views on female character representations in these soaps.
I'm doing a critical research exam and have to study a specific topic of my choosing, I also had to use varied reesearch techniques so decided to start a thread on here.
Please reply with any responses. Thanks.

Did ask permission of the forum owner to do this?

So basically you're asking other people to do your exam for you? Normally a poll is best.

I did the exact same exam a couple of years back, its impossible to do without feedback from other people so its not us doing it at all.

I don't think any of you understand me.
I've already done my part by watching the soaps, writing my own opinions, doing a questionnaire, and now I want to find out a more general opinion by asking on a forum.
It's allowed, my friend already did it on a Liverpool forum as he's studying something to do with advertising in football, so I'm just doing the same on here by asking what you think of female characters in the soaps Hollyoaks and Eastenders.

Homework: Watch Soaps!!! And they say kids have it easy these days!

For what it's worth, Hollyoaks is probably the exception when it comes to the portrayal of women - or indeed men - and about the only soap where characters are not defined by their sex. Over the years Hollyoaks has been criticised for it's young, blonde cast - but they've tackled issues such as self harming and anorexia by building them into the characters psyche, not just using them as the latest ratings grabbing storyline and forgetting all about it a few weeks later.

Meanwhile in the big three soaps generally speaking the women are portrayed as the stronger characters and the men as wimps, with female roles pretty much divided into matriarch, tart and bitch, with very little deviation from the stereotype. EastEnders is perhaps the most guilty of the lot for this, but it's been so long since I've watched it I'm not really in a position to judge.

You have to watch it, then analyse it, then conduct questionnaires and maybe do a focus group, then gather all your findings, analyse all of that, evaluate it, then write essays based on it. Its a hell of a lot more than just watching the soaps. Perhaps you should sit the exam and you'll find its a lot more difficult than you might think

When I did mine it was based on the representation of the police in TV crime dramas. The parts that I can transfer about the women is that they seem to be represented initially as weaker than men but when needed they can become stronger than the men. But mainly as Brekkie already said there are some stereotypes which all the characters seem to be based around.