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What are the codes and conventions of soap operas?

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Soap operas are on-going and may continue for a long time. Some conventions are:

Multi stranded narratives
No relation to outside world (What happens in the real world doesn't affect the characters in the soap)
sponsors - (soap operas are funded by product placement)
not unlikely narratives ( but unlikely for them all to happen to the same people in the same village / street)
Creates realism ( placement of clocks, diegetic sound, ect)

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