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Old 07-12-2006, 01:21
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I just saw a clip from a 1994 episode of corrie....and im completely shocked.

compared to the sets nowadays they look a million times more realistic.

as the years have gone on the sets for corrie emmerdale and eastenders look so false its completely takes away from the realism....they are starting to look like pantomines.

anyone agree
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Old 07-12-2006, 01:55
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Yep, Corrie is a mess. The "railway" bridge that goes over the chippy and behind the Rovers is shameful... What a cock up that is.
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Old 07-12-2006, 03:11
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The sets in Corrie haven't ever been that realistic. Looking back through old TV Times, where the critics may have been kind even back in the 1960s viewers noticed things and wrote in.
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Old 07-12-2006, 08:16
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The Red Rec always looks quite realistic
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Old 07-12-2006, 10:34
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hehe!!!!!!!!!
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Old 07-12-2006, 16:39
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You can actually see the corrie set from the windows in the science musuem! What an entertaining afternoon!
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Old 07-12-2006, 16:45
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They've probably had to cut the budget to accommodate the number of episodes that are churned out, not to mention paying the wages of the bloated cast size.
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Old 07-12-2006, 16:46
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I know, it says dont take pics but ive got loads and a vid of Ken walking down the street! Go outside the studio gates, most of them are lovely! Except Les who I found a bit rude! Even if they dont stop in their cars most of them smile or wave (Debra Stephenson and Bev Callard waved to me)! I got my pic took with a few and got some autographs! Including Tracy, Ken, Claire, Cilla, Roy, Kirk also met Dev!

I think the sets are great, Emmerdales are fab and EE's are great too! I think Home and Aways look a bit dodgy but anyway!
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Old 07-12-2006, 23:41
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Soap characters look alot more glamarous now. In the old days people were more downtrodden.
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Old 08-12-2006, 00:04
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Originally Posted by Hippyste
Soap characters look alot more glamarous now. In the old days people were more downtrodden.
Hair nets and cross-over pinnies.
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Old 08-12-2006, 00:54
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Originally Posted by RosamundStreet
Go outside the studio gates, most of them are lovely! Except Les who I found a bit rude!
But that's only to be expected
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Old 08-12-2006, 04:04
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Originally Posted by MikeGne
The sets in Corrie haven't ever been that realistic. Looking back through old TV Times, where the critics may have been kind even back in the 1960s viewers noticed things and wrote in.
The interior sets from 1960 right up until about the mid-1990s were always spot on in my opinion. I think that it was, for a large part, down to the filming techniques as much as the actual quality of the sets.

More thought certainly went into the early sets, especially with regard to how a character's home defines their character.

Physically Coronation Street's exterior and interior sets have never matched up, so in that way, yes they were not realistic. However, as far as actual quality of set design and attention to detail is concerned, for many years Coronation Street was faultless.

Nowadays I feel that the sets and props have fallen by the wayside, probably due to the tough filming schedule. Also, we rarely see a range of different camera angles during interior scenes. All of the terraced houses are filmed from the same angle, VERY rarely being pierced with a glimpse of a different wall. The direction techniques have grown bland; once upon a time we would see an entire room in a single scene (...AND they were filmed as-live!)

I could go on a completely differnt discussion about character defining through their sets and props, but I won't bore you with that
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Old 08-12-2006, 20:17
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Originally Posted by iDRAGbehind
Yep, Corrie is a mess. The "railway" bridge that goes over the chippy and behind the Rovers is shameful... What a cock up that is.
A national eyesore, same too for the bridge in Coronation Street before it became bricked into a viaduct.
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Old 08-12-2006, 23:54
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Originally Posted by Elsie Tanner
The interior sets from 1960 right up until about the mid-1990s were always spot on in my opinion. I think that it was, for a large part, down to the filming techniques as much as the actual quality of the sets.

More thought certainly went into the early sets, especially with regard to how a character's home defines their character.

Physically Coronation Street's exterior and interior sets have never matched up, so in that way, yes they were not realistic. However, as far as actual quality of set design and attention to detail is concerned, for many years Coronation Street was faultless.

Nowadays I feel that the sets and props have fallen by the wayside, probably due to the tough filming schedule. Also, we rarely see a range of different camera angles during interior scenes. All of the terraced houses are filmed from the same angle, VERY rarely being pierced with a glimpse of a different wall. The direction techniques have grown bland; once upon a time we would see an entire room in a single scene (...AND they were filmed as-live!)

I could go on a completely differnt discussion about character defining through their sets and props, but I won't bore you with that
I recall one TV Times, where a viewer pointed out a tea pot had done the rounds, and had appeared in most houses.

See the people leaving the pub in 1964 when Minnie dies, it looks from the outside like a pub you'd see in a Panto.

Of course we can look at them now and say how unrealistic they looked, but I guess on a small black and white TV in the 60s it may not have looked so obvious.

Of course Sally's staircase still wobbling, and the store room in the corner shop shuddering when the door is shut is something they should have sorted out a long time ago.
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Old 09-12-2006, 03:11
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Originally Posted by MikeGne
I recall one TV Times, where a viewer pointed out a tea pot had done the rounds, and had appeared in most houses.

See the people leaving the pub in 1964 when Minnie dies, it looks from the outside like a pub you'd see in a Panto.

Of course we can look at them now and say how unrealistic they looked, but I guess on a small black and white TV in the 60s it may not have looked so obvious.

Of course Sally's staircase still wobbling, and the store room in the corner shop shuddering when the door is shut is something they should have sorted out a long time ago.
You mean when Martha dies

I made no mention of the exterior sets, right up until 1982 they always looked rubbish. That is the only word for them. In my eyes, the interiors were top-notch for many years.
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Old 09-12-2006, 03:58
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Martha and Minne.. always mix those two up..

The inside sets are quite good, but they never seemed 'real' to me for some reason. The lighting up until the mid-1990s was quite badly done. (Sorry lighting person.)

And then they seemed to spend more time making the lighting look good - which made the sets look better, seems lately the lighting has gone back to the almost 70's 'no effort' style. Emmerdale also recently had a few sets lit rather 'too studio' like for drama.

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Old 09-12-2006, 04:43
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Originally Posted by MikeGne
Martha and Minne.. always mix those two up..

The inside sets are quite good, but they never seemed 'real' to me for some reason. The lighting up until the mid-1990s was quite badly done. (Sorry lighting person.)

And then they seemed to spend more time making the lighting look good - which made the sets look better, seems lately the lighting has gone back to the almost 70's 'no effort' style. Emmerdale also recently had a few sets lit rather 'too studio' like for drama.
Coronation Street has never had realistic lighting - especially during the days of the interior street set. It would be the same brightness whether it was 9am or midnight!

I think that even now the lighting is poor.
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Old 09-12-2006, 06:07
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Originally Posted by PoshRiver
I just saw a clip from a 1994 episode of corrie....and im completely shocked.

compared to the sets nowadays they look a million times more realistic.

as the years have gone on the sets for corrie emmerdale and eastenders look so false its completely takes away from the realism....they are starting to look like pantomines.

anyone agree
Disagree! You watched a clip from 12yrs ago. Of course sets look different but it doesnt make it panto. I notice you didnt mention Neighbours or H&A. 1986 when Neighbours arrived here in the UK the Scullys/Timmins house looks nothing like the Robinson's as was back then. Times move on!
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Old 10-12-2006, 02:04
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Originally Posted by Elsie Tanner
Coronation Street has never had realistic lighting - especially during the days of the interior street set. It would be the same brightness whether it was 9am or midnight!

I think that even now the lighting is poor.

They've never made an effort with the homes, but they did with the hair salon and pub for as I say a while, they did some nice lighting with the windows of the salon that gave it a more realistic look, but lately it doesn't seem any effort has been made.

But watching these supposed 'expensive dramas' on ITV3 that in the 60s and 70s were called 'proper tv' while soap wasn't really supposed to be very good, a lot of the technical standards are not really that much ahead of the soaps of the time either. Sherlock Homes (Granada) and Tales Of The Unexpected (Anglia) are two examples.
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