Buffy the vampire slayer and soaps.

Describe the ways in which different television fictional narratives appeal to their audience, refer to specific texts in your answer. The narrative of a television programme is the way in which the storyline unfolds, the narrative shows how meaning is constructed in order to achieve the audiences understanding. Narratives unfold differently in television texts and are constructed through the camera work, sound and mise-en-scene, it refers to all the events, explicitly presented and inferred to …

…aracteristics based on physical appearance. These are vital as soap characters have little time to establish themselves whereas in films there is more time to establish and develop a character. In conclusion the narratives of different television fictional texts vary through different genres to make them more appealing. Many different techniques are used to enhance the text for a particular audience and this is done through everything audibly or visibly present, camera work and lighting.