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Realism - Soap Essay Realism means accuracy of speech and setting, thorough background detail and a concern for vermisimitude or realism could mean the willingness to face the facts. Realism is hard to define. There are different types of realism documentary, social, emotional and dramatic. Technical codes play an important role in making realism in soaps, this refers to documentary realism where soaps are supposed to look like they haven't been constructed and camera work shouldn't be too complicated, it should be like looking in on someone's life through their window. The editing should be invisible making the soap look like a continuous shot so it doesn't look like we are watching a piece of fiction. Geraghty claims that plausibility and credibility is valued more by British soaps saying 'British soaps, because of their greater dependence on realism, are less daring [than US soaps] in displaying their fictionality.' The soap...

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