15-10-2022, 12:10 AM
According to Corriepedia, there's an episode of Corrie in 1970 where two consecutive scenes that are meant to take place straight after each other move from video to film (or the other way round, can't remember which). Which is even more jarring than scenes in the same location at different parts of the episode being on a different format. Sadly it's not an episode that's on the Network DVD boxset, so I've not seen it personally, though there's certainly several episodes that are on DVD with both film and video location work in the same episode.
Talking of cameras though, watching the 2002 Emmerdale episodes on ITV3, I'm struck by how poor quality the studio scenes are. The location scenes look fine (and there's thin black bars down the edges of the screen on the studio work that isn't there on location), so I'm guessing it's something to do with the cameras they used in the studios, possibly older models than they used on location? Only really seemed to have become noticable after the show went 16:9, so presumably they either started using different cameras after the switch, or the cameras gave worse performance on 16:9 than in 4:3.
We're also less than 2 weeks from them showing the 30th anniversary episodes where they started using a film look before switching back after only 7 episodes because of complaints- going to be interesting to see whether ITV3 show the episodes with or without the film look- they could show it without the film look for consistency, like they did with the ITV2 omnibus showings back in 2002, rather than it jarringly switching for a few episodes then switching back.
I'm going off on far too much of a tangent here though!
Talking of cameras though, watching the 2002 Emmerdale episodes on ITV3, I'm struck by how poor quality the studio scenes are. The location scenes look fine (and there's thin black bars down the edges of the screen on the studio work that isn't there on location), so I'm guessing it's something to do with the cameras they used in the studios, possibly older models than they used on location? Only really seemed to have become noticable after the show went 16:9, so presumably they either started using different cameras after the switch, or the cameras gave worse performance on 16:9 than in 4:3.
We're also less than 2 weeks from them showing the 30th anniversary episodes where they started using a film look before switching back after only 7 episodes because of complaints- going to be interesting to see whether ITV3 show the episodes with or without the film look- they could show it without the film look for consistency, like they did with the ITV2 omnibus showings back in 2002, rather than it jarringly switching for a few episodes then switching back.
I'm going off on far too much of a tangent here though!