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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 443386" data-attributes="member: 22">Yeah, she&#039;d come from a time when you rehearsed two or three episodes all week, honed your scenes and worked out whatever bits of business you wanted to do in them, and then recorded the whole episode almost &quot;as live&quot; (with pre-recorded on-location bits played in as you went along) at the end. The really nerve-wracking bit was if someone screwed up really badly, everyone would have to go back to the start of either Part One or Part Two of that ep and start again, knowing that union rules meant you had to stop filming at a certain time and that would be that.From that, she was plunged into a world of rehearse/record, where you go through your lines once or twice in front of the camera operators for them to work out their shots, then boom, you&#039;re on: instant acting. Plus you could be working on about fifteen episodes at the same time. It&#039;s a completely different way of working and some actors are brilliant at it, but obviously it was a huge culture shock for Goodyear. added to the fact that I don&#039;t think she&#039;d done much acting in the intervening years so she might have been a bit rusty anyway. I remember her saying she wanted to redo her make-up before a scene where she wakes up hungover and was told there wasn&#039;t time, whereas in the old days, that would have been factored in as part of the schedule. But I do remember her opening comeback scenes, where she interacts with the new breed of Corrie characters like Janice Battersby, as being really, really great. Plus her last appearance as Bet was in a kind of self-contained on-location soap bubble thing with Liz MacDonald, and that was really fun, so it wasn&#039;t all bad. (Actually, I think everything she did do on screen was great, there just wasn&#039;t very much of it.)Here&#039;s a really good, well-balanced video about it:[MEDIA=youtube]JY51dCaWky8[/MEDIA]Oh interesting. I hadn&#039;t spotted that!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 443386, member: 22"] Yeah, she'd come from a time when you rehearsed two or three episodes all week, honed your scenes and worked out whatever bits of business you wanted to do in them, and then recorded the whole episode almost "as live" (with pre-recorded on-location bits played in as you went along) at the end. The really nerve-wracking bit was if someone screwed up really badly, everyone would have to go back to the start of either Part One or Part Two of that ep and start again, knowing that union rules meant you had to stop filming at a certain time and that would be that. From that, she was plunged into a world of rehearse/record, where you go through your lines once or twice in front of the camera operators for them to work out their shots, then boom, you're on: instant acting. Plus you could be working on about fifteen episodes at the same time. It's a completely different way of working and some actors are brilliant at it, but obviously it was a huge culture shock for Goodyear. added to the fact that I don't think she'd done much acting in the intervening years so she might have been a bit rusty anyway. I remember her saying she wanted to redo her make-up before a scene where she wakes up hungover and was told there wasn't time, whereas in the old days, that would have been factored in as part of the schedule. But I do remember her opening comeback scenes, where she interacts with the new breed of Corrie characters like Janice Battersby, as being really, really great. Plus her last appearance as Bet was in a kind of self-contained on-location soap bubble thing with Liz MacDonald, and that was really fun, so it wasn't all bad. (Actually, I think everything she [I]did[/I] do on screen was great, there just wasn't very much of it.) Here's a really good, well-balanced video about it: [MEDIA=youtube]JY51dCaWky8[/MEDIA] Oh interesting. I hadn't spotted that! [/QUOTE]

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