Generally in a TV drama opening scene you see the different settings that it is set in and some of the behaviours of the characters seen express the themes of the show. For example the two people running up stairs at the start of Emmerdale.
The settings represent the key locations of where the show will take place. In Emmerdale you see a small yorkshire village which suggests that it is a close community in which everyone knows each other. The different houses show the different class of people that live there, one house is posh and are probably a younger couple, the other is a small cottage with older chairs probably occupied by an older couple. Another setting seen in the opening scene is the pub which suggests that this pub is popular place for conversations and food and drink in the whole of Emmerdale.
The setting of Emmerdale suggests that Yorkshire is made up of quiet, small communities that have a variety of different types of people living there. It also suggests that the whole of Yorkshire is made up of small old villages dotted across large grass lands without having any kind of main city.
Typical soap themes include betrayal, affairs, death, murder, broken friendships, family problems, relationship problems. This would be different in Emmerdale as everyone will know each other closely and so having affairs would be much more dangerous. Murders would be easier as hiding the body would be easy out in the Yorkshire Dales. As the community comes across as a close community it's hard to think that people will have falling outs, However if they did then it would be much harder to ignore the fact that they are no longer friends as they would be seeing each other everyday.
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