Any Corrie fans who have visited the Coronation Street set will have noticed how small everything seems compared to how it looks on screen. And that's because it is small, it's only three-quarters the size it appears. STV reports that when the set was first built in 1960s a lack of space in the studio
meant that the wooden house fronts all had to be built smaller than than
they appear.
Over the years the set was moved outside and in 1982 a permanent
street was built from reclaimed Salford brick, but the scale was
maintained. The show's production team used a number of tricks to hide the
building's real size, including training the actors to walk more slowly
in front of them.
Speaking to The Sun, Corrie director Tony Prescott said: "We use camera tricks - you can do anything with a wide lens - to get it to look normal."
This will no longer be a problem for the show, however, as it leaves
its historic Manchester studios to a new set at MediaCityUK in Salford. And, Prescott revealed, "the new set will be scaled up." But ITV boss John Whiston reassured fans that the street will still look the same. He said: "We will be using the same factory that made the old bricks
and I will be making sure that each one is exactly the same as all the
others."
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And, Prescott revealed, "the new set will be scaled up." But ITV boss John Whiston reassured fans that the street will still look the same because the actors will be fitted with lifts in their shoes whilst others will be on stilts.
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