Group 1 Task

Group 1 Task

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1. How does Cuffs create on-going multiple storylines based on ‘everyday police life’?

• Ryan's story
• Nathan's story
• We follow Jake's life
• Multiple crimes in one go therefore it switches between different police officers and different characters fighting different crimes.
• Different crimes in different episodes
• This reflects real police officers hard work and the fact that they always have lots of work and lots of crimes to fight in one go.
• Cuffs shows the different area's and professions part of the same team that all work together to resolve a problem 
•   There are many crime scenes and people included in the episode which reflect on everyday police life as it includes each police officers point of view and the scenarios which happens in a police officers day to day life.

2. Discuss how Cuffs creates a social realism of a soap opera.

• Cuffs represents social realism of a soap opera with several situations:
• eg. superintendent having an affair 
• Ryan's financial issues that come along with being a single dad
• Hate crimes against Amit Sharma (a man represented as Indian)
• Nathan's drug overdose and struggle with depression

Social realist storylines reflect the society they depict by tackling social issues in a dramatic form

These include family discord, marriage breakdowns & financial problems. These are just some examples.

Cuffs tends to focus and represent everyday characters and situations that are set In working – middle class environments, rather than extremely wealthy environments.

The programme examines the lives of people who live and work in the town of Brighton – these characters tend to be stereotypical.