Home and Away is made to appeal to a family audience based on the variety of age groups in the programme. It has a G rating and screens at 7’o’clock; with advertisement breaks targeted at all the family, advertising Safeway food sales, Kleenex tissues, Hungry Jacks, health insurance, house hold items, etc.

This soap opera depicts other family units like Irene Roberts, a middle-aged mother, her adopted sixteen-year-old son Nick Smith who is Jade Sutherland’s

Some aspects of the soap opera are predictable such as obvious scenes at school, the Caravan Park, beach and diner also at the endings of some cliffhangers. These include normal classroom behaviour, making general conversation, ordering a meal or telling what might come next by the characters facial expressions and reactions.

The situations and conflicts between characters that are resolved help viewers arrive at a better understanding of themselves and others as the viewers partake in a lesson without experiencing it. For instance Colleen gambled all of her money away, overtime she lost trust, friendship and financial funds necessary for every day living, however as she received help on her gambling addiction she regained all that she had lost.

Some topics in this essay:
Caravan Park, Park Interspersed, Max Rhys’, Summerbay School, VJ Sometimes, Alexi Poulos, , Creek Hospital, Hungry Jacks, Kirsty Jade, soap opera, caravan park, sutherland family, real life, sutherland’s boyfriend,