'Coronation Street' is using "cinematic" green-screen technology for upcoming scenes.
Corrie boss Iain McLeod teases an explosive week ahead on the cobbles
The long-running ITV soap opera has filmed an "explosive week" of scenes for the departure of established character Kelly Neelan - played by Millie Gibson - and producer Iain MacLeod has teased that the cast and crew have used "impressive" technology normally used in cinematic blockbusters.
He said: "We've done something really special and certainly among the most impressive things that I've worked on in my varied career and so, I'm very excited by it. We've decided to go full on. The centrepiece of the week is a sequence that we've shot using technology that's more commonly found in things like 'The Mandalorian', or they use a slightly larger version of this in a lot of the 'Avengers' movies.
"In this full volume wall which is relatively new to me, essentially it's like a very new fandangled version of what they would have called green screen, or back projection back in the early days of the talkies."
The 'Corrie' boss - who was previously at the helm of fellow ITV soap opera 'Emmerdale' - went on to explain that the technology has allowed him to create a "three-dimensional world" as part of a rooftop sequence.
He told The Mirror: "But basically, it means you can put your actors anywhere that you can imagine so you can essentially design a 3D world. So what we've done is create this incredible rooftop sequence with a source of twinkling Mancunian cityscape behind it, so that we can do things that you could never normally do in a location shoot. You can put real actors in what appears to be very real danger without using stunt performance. You can have the camera behave in a way that it can't do in the real world."
"The gist of the week is, we all know, and it leaves me with a heavy heart to say, but we all know Kelly's leaving the show. So we thought well, actually, the fact that Millie is going and that therefore Kelly is going allows us to go really big and do something incredibly high stakes, to maybe have some characters step on all these landmines that we've buried for them over the years and have them go off in one cataclysmic explosion."