Audrey’s original character was just brilliant, a real gadabout. When she married Alf the character changed and then in later years just became ridiculous. Well done to Sue though for 40 years, 34 as a regular.
Many people change in real life over 40 years
I wonder where the prison scenes were filmed tonight, is the set of Bad Girls still standing?!
The usual prison scenes are filmed on sets above the exterior buildings used for Roys Rolls/Prima Doner/community centre/Barlow Legal. We saw a blend between those and a completely new area tonight, which are not on set.
Also worth pointing out at the end of tonight's second episode, they ran a trailer for the episodes we've just seen, advertising them as being on "tomorrow at 7:30", so clearly a trailer that was meant to have been shown on Sunday. So screwups across the board tonight.
Also the footage in the trailer was filmised, but managed to look better than what we'd actually seen in the episode, with colour grading and motion blur, rather than the jerky blurless movement we saw in the episodes themselves.
Ironically tonight's Emmerdale is using the sort of colour grading that last night's Corrie should have had, only they aren't sticking a film look on it.
I hope it's only there for this week, as it's a "special" week based around David and Sinead, but the worry is that they've decided to put it there full time.
The editing and shooting style are far more filmic too. This must be just for this week, as i can't imagine them being able to keep it at this level with the amount of episodes they have to churn out every week.
Part of the problem is much of the shooting style isn't more filmic, still feels as if it's been lit and shot for 50i in most of the scenes (in fact it looks as if it was shot 50i then de-interlaced rather than native 25p as the movement is so jerky, in fact a couple of shots on Monday's second episode were 50i), which is a lot to do with why it looks so bad. The Carla episode a few months back at last made reasonable changes to the lighting and colour grading. Ironically the preceeding Emmerdale looked a lot more filmic.
I guess that could be a sign it's only for this week though, if they're keeping the usual lighting and filming in 50i, presumably they're filming so many scenes from different episodes at once it's easier to keep the usual way of doing things rather than having to keep changing back and forth and possibly filming some scenes the wrong way? If it is a full time change, it's being done horribly incompetently.
There's shutter speed as well. If you shoot 50i then decide to go to down to 25p later, you're stuck with a faster shutter speed (1/100th probably) when you could have shot at 1/50th if you'd known ahead of time.
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In other soap/framerate related news, which is hardly worthy of a new thread, the "Previously on Holby City..." last night included some 50i shots from 10+ years ago - upscaled SD, I'm pretty sure.
Coronation Street actually made that statement one day before Anne passed away, and it was reported by several outlets. I wonder if the Radio Times took the story down when her death was announced and it's somehow been republished.