Southern and northern stereotypes (TV)

Looking through the northern and southern stereotypes the TV programme that involes the northern side ism eastenders:
The reasonc why i've chosen this is that i don't tend to watch but eastenders i have more understanding cause people tell me what goes on in it and also i find it easier to pick out the northern stereotypes out of it.

Looking at this picture we see a very busy photo, it's a photo of part of London, as we no London is in the south of england so as follows 'southern'. It shows from the picture its based in a city so it's busy and over runned so we know theres going to be alot of dilemmas and different storys inbetween this programme. And proberly why it's so successful in its ratung is thgat London is the capital of the country which shows a massive a tourism attraction and has the most local people that proberly have the same stereotype as the eastenders character and mise en scene within the programme.

SETTING (lighting):
The show is mostly flimed in the day as it's more active in the day time, this shows maybe southerns are hard working and active. Also its mostly filmed in the pub Victorian Inn so it shows a social life and they like an old drink in the daytime, also this has more links to dilemmas due to socialness banta and backstabbers as its a soap, so it's stereotypes the southerns again.


SETTING: (lace)
The series of Eastenders primarily centres around the residents of Albert square , a Victorian square of terraced houses, and its neighbouring streets, namely Bridge Street, Turpin Road and George Street, and which encompasses a pub, street market, night club, community centre, cafe and various small businesses, in addition to a park and allotments..So yet again we are seeing the more typical stereotypes within the fliming as southern have a upper class so they can enjoy the luxary life of spending money and having a good time being socible and well sometimes could occur into a fight due to drinking.
Also Fans have tried to establish the actual location of Walford within London. Walford East is a fictional tube station for Walford, and with the aid of a map that was first seen on air in 1996, it has been established that Walford East is located between Bow Road and West Ham, which realistically would replace Bromley-by-Bow (best example of explanation i can get a visual aspect on the scene also photo shows). The photo is taken in the 1980's but the cartoon version shows you the visual map of the setting of Albert square/ Eastenders.

People of the show: (Stereotypes of southern behaviour)

EastEnders programme makers took the decision that the show was to be about "everyday life" in the inner city "today" and regarded it as a "slice of life" Creator/producer Julia Smith declared that "We don't make life, we reflect it". Also she explained

"We decided to go for a realistic, fairly outspoken type of drama” which it ended up as encompass stories about homosexuality, rape, unemployment, racial prejudice, etc., in a believable context. But above all, they wanted realism, yet again stereotyping the southernism culture of what people are like in life and also the programme.

Typical mise en scene of fliming:
Looking at this picture the backgorund is very posh and upper class and bery up to date e.g. thing on tables, suite that the man is wearing, flowers in backgorund, bright and warm colour which brings room to life. So maybe we see a typical southerner dressed like these people in this photo.

Looking at this photo from emmerdale this is the Northern point of view in th drama, very old fashioned and like a kind of 1980's fashion so there not all up to date and maybe in a lower class communitity as emmerdale is based near a countryside, different type of story. So this could be a typical steorotype visual aspect on the Northern side of life.


But what we see in Eastenders (Southern stereotype ranges) is:

• High upper class fashion scene
• Up to date events and life expectations
• Daily life in light, sometimes nightlife occurs
• Active and busy town
  
• Lots of 'backstabbing' and stereotypeing eachother, arrogant/stuck up with what the charatcter is, upper-lower class (even could be a form of rasism in some aspects and storylines).
• Clean and tidy enviroment to be in, same as most of the characters that are played.
• Vilonce is strong and has a strong meaning, family issues and friendships.
  
• Cleaver minded and very upself about thier jobs.