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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 361231" data-attributes="member: 22">I&#039;ve got nothing on this, I&#039;m afraid! But, having watched the beginnings of a lot of the soaps over the past couple of years - Crossroads, Corrie, Brookside, Sons and Daughters, Enders, Dark Shadows, Peyton Place, even Neighbours - it sort of reminds me of something I&#039;ve noticed about insert shots (those close-ups of significant details, like a photo someone is holding, or a newspaper headline, or anything else I might have started a picture thread about, that are inserted into a scene after the main action has been filmed). With the exception of Peyton Place, which always had higher production values, those shots are very rare in a show&#039;s early days; you get the sense that the programme makers are keeping things as simple as possible while they get used to the logistics of just putting the thing on the screen. (Apparently, and I heard about this third-hand so feel free to take it with a pinch of salt, things were so basic in the early years of Brookside that, during the filming of the infamous showdown between Sheila and Marie in the middle of the close, the director was lying on the ground out of shot moving the actors&#039; legs into the position they needed to be in!)Then, as productions get more into their groove, things gradually&nbsp; become more sophisticated, even if it&#039;s only in small ways: I remember seeing a close-up on S&amp;D of the evil surgeon from Bless This House reflected in the wing mirror of his car and thinking there&#039;s no way you&#039;d have got&nbsp; even a shot like that -- which isn&#039;t that remarkable&nbsp; -- when the series first began. And now obviously, thanks to technological advances, the British soaps can now pull off far more sophisticated camera work than when they started out, even though they&#039;re pumping out twice as many episodes, if not more.What any of that has to do with Crossroads and drop-ins, I&#039;m not sure ...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 361231, member: 22"] I've got nothing on this, I'm afraid! But, having watched the beginnings of a lot of the soaps over the past couple of years - [I]Crossroads, Corrie, Brookside, Sons and Daughters, Enders, Dark Shadows, Peyton Place[/I], even [I]Neighbours[/I] - it sort of reminds me of something I've noticed about insert shots (those close-ups of significant details, like a photo someone is holding, or a newspaper headline, or anything else I might have started a picture thread about, that are inserted into a scene after the main action has been filmed). With the exception of [I]Peyton Place,[/I] which always had higher production values, those shots are very rare in a show's early days; you get the sense that the programme makers are keeping things as simple as possible while they get used to the logistics of just putting the thing on the screen. (Apparently, and I heard about this third-hand so feel free to take it with a pinch of salt, things were so basic in the early years of [I]Brookside[/I] that, during the filming of the infamous showdown between Sheila and Marie in the middle of the close, the director was lying on the ground out of shot moving the actors' legs into the position they needed to be in!) Then, as productions get more into their groove, things gradually become more sophisticated, even if it's only in small ways: I remember seeing a close-up on [I]S&D[/I] of the evil surgeon from [I]Bless This House[/I] reflected in the wing mirror of his car and thinking there's no way you'd have got even a shot like that -- which isn't [I]that [/I]remarkable -- when the series first began. And now obviously, thanks to technological advances, the British soaps can now pull off far more sophisticated camera work than when they started out, even though they're pumping out twice as many episodes, if not more. What any of that has to do with [I]Crossroads[/I] and drop-ins, I'm not sure ... [/QUOTE]

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