How does an Eastenders extract demonstrate soap conventions?

• An established location- Albert Square. This location represents the safe environment for the characters as it is a place of familiarity and continuity; it also creates a sense of community.

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  A meeting place- Queen Victoria. This is the social place where all the characters are often seen; it is also normally where all the drama happens in the soap programme and gives the programme a sense of syntagm. 
  
  
  

  

  
  
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  In this extract there are also many shot-reverse-shots showing when the characters are talking which can help create emotions between characters. The soap programme also includes the conventions of diegetic sound, naturalistic lighting and theme music at the beginning to start off the interpellation.
  
  
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  This extract also denotes rivalry between families- for example the Mitchells and the Beales, which connotes secrets between all the characters in the programme. Here we see the dramatic irony as the audience know everything. 
  
  
• There are also many stereotypes in the soap extract, such as people of different homosexuality, race, age, etc.