The official PH Coronation Street thread

[Wacky Racer]

They normally film 6 weeks in advance.

Must be coming up to that around now since he (Sharif) was sacked.

According to newspaper reports he was fired immediately, so they would not have had time to film any exit scenes.

Will be interesting to see out it pans out.

[coppice]

Anybody else notice the railway sound motif being used yet again to signal dramatic moments ? First noticed this a year or two back and like nearly everything we see and hear on screen it's not accidental .

[Wacky Racer]

coppice said:

Anybody else notice the railway sound motif being used yet again to signal dramatic moments ? First noticed this a year or two back and like nearly everything we see and hear on screen it's not accidental .

Not sure what you mean.

Railway sound??

[227bhp]

Wacky Racer said:

coppice said:

Anybody else notice the railway sound motif being used yet again to signal dramatic moments ? First noticed this a year or two back and like nearly everything we see and hear on screen it's not accidental .

Not sure what you mean.

Railway sound??

I'm more puzzled by 'motif'. Visual sound?

I think what he's getting at is the sound of a passing train being used at certain moments for dramatic effect.
A bit like certain types of music for effect or the sound of the wind as the main character (David Platt) looks wistfully across the deserted plains as the tumbledweed blows across.

Can't believe i'm having to explain that, have you not had your morning coffees yet Wacky?

Edit: Sorry to swear, but they do the passing train thing in Eastenders too.

[sparkythecat]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

So I wonder who drives the Mustang in real life.

Sally

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1FRrZD2y9Y

[sparkythecat]

Wacky Racer said:

Not sure what you mean.

Railway sound??

That'll be the trams that pass over the viaduct.

In 2010, one fell off and killed off Ashley Peacock and Molly Dobbs.

[Wacky Racer]

Still don't understand.

Say (for arguments sake) a character was being mugged in the middle of the street, and they inserted the sound of a tram going over the viaduct, how would that increase the "dramatic effect"?

[RB Will]

more ambiance I suppose

[TwigtheWonderkid]

sparkythecat said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

So I wonder who drives the Mustang in real life.

Sally

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1FRrZD2y9Y

Very good.

[227bhp]

RB Will said:

more ambiance I suppose

Or Ambiwlans.

There was an eerie silence so long the other night you could have driven a train through it.

[coppice]

Sound motifs are often used to dramatic effect in film and theatre (eg barking dogs whenever Richard III appears in an RSC production I saw ). Train / tram - whatever-but used to add emphasis to a scene on the Street. See also the 'pathetic fallacy ' where weather, for example, adds to and reflects the drama of the narrative and is given human characteristics . See King Lear and lots of Thomas Hardy .

[Wacky Racer]

coppice said:

Sound motifs are often used to dramatic effect in film and theatre (eg barking dogs whenever Richard III appears in an RSC production I saw ). Train / tram - whatever-but used to add emphasis to a scene on the Street. See also the 'pathetic fallacy ' where weather, for example, adds to and reflects the drama of the narrative and is given human characteristics . See King Lear and lots of Thomas Hardy .

OK, thanks for that.

We are getting a bit deep here...it's only Corrie ffs!, but I think I can see where you are coming from...

http://www.slideshare.net/longroadmedia/glossary-s...

[coppice]

Corrie deserves comparison with any other drama - when it's on form. As has been said, if Charles Dickens were around now he'd be writing the scripts . Good drama is good drama whether it's Greek tragedy, which I shall be seeing in the theatre tomorrow , or a radio or TV soap. There is sharper dialogue in most episodes than a the full set of Fast and Furious or Bond films - and yes I am quite serious .

[nicanary]

coppice said:

Corrie deserves comparison with any other drama - when it's on form. As has been said, if Charles Dickens were around now he'd be writing the scripts . Good drama is good drama whether it's Greek tragedy, which I shall be seeing in the theatre tomorrow , or a radio or TV soap. There is sharper dialogue in most episodes than a the full set of Fast and Furious or Bond films - and yes I am quite serious .

I fully support your view. It's why I've watched it since the 60s.

[surveyor]

As an aside anyone watch Emmerdale? The actor who plays Ashley is doing a fine job....

[Athlon]

surveyor said:

As an aside anyone watch Emmerdale? The actor who plays Ashley is doing a fine job....

Brilliant acting, to be fair, emmerdale as a whole is pretty good at the mo from a lighthearted pint of view, Ashley is very good, I wen't through this with Dad and he has researched the problem very well

[Wacky Racer]

Athlon said:

surveyor said:

As an aside anyone watch Emmerdale? The actor who plays Ashley is doing a fine job....

Brilliant acting, to be fair, emmerdale as a whole is pretty good at the mo from a lighthearted pint of view

That reminds me...Does Amos Brearley and Joe Sugden still go in the Woolpack?

[Athlon]

no. Both brown bread.

[Wacky Racer]

Athlon said:

no. Both brown bread.

Nay Mr Wilkes.....

[nicanary]

Caz returns to the street with a non-speaking part tonight. She didn't even do that very well.