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The sets of the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' have changed since first broadcast in December 1960. The current set is based at the ITV Trafford Wharf Studios backlot, MediaCityUK in Trafford. As of , it consists of early 20th-century terraced houses, with a public house, The Rovers Return, at one end, and a corner shop at the other. The other side of the street consists of a factory, two shop units, a garage and three semi-detached houses, all appearing to have been constructed in the late 1980s. ==1960–1982== From 1960 until 1968, the complete set of ''Coronation Street'' (house interiors and exteriors) was erected inside one of Granada Television's studios in central Manchester, with the houses reduced in scale to 3/4.〔Tinker, Jack, p. 95. ''Coronation Street; A fully illustrated record of television's most popular serial'', Treasure Press, 1987 (ISBN 1-85051-229-9).〕 This small set was awkward for the actors, who had to walk more slowly than normal to appear in scale with the houses. There are a number of reasons for the use of an indoor studio; the main one being that the infancy of production techniques at the time did not allow easy recording and editing of sequences filmed in different locations.〔Tinker, p. 10.〕 It was not until 1967 that editing techniques had improved enough to allow ''Coronation Street'' to be filmed on separate interior and exterior sets. The studios were not big enough for the entire street to be erected at once, so it was split into two halves.〔Podmore, Bill, p. 121. ''Coronation Street; The Inside Story'', MacDonald, 1990 (ISBN 0-356-17971-0).〕 The pavements and cobbled street were painted onto the studio floor.〔 Despite the limitations of the cramped studio set, some complex and dramatic scenes were filmed there. These include the collapse of Number 7 in 1965, and two years later, a special-effects-laden storyline involving a train crash; the viewers did not know if stalwart Ena Sharples was dead under the rubble. In 1967, Granada Television made the decision to build an outside set. This new set was built on some old railway sidings near Granada Studios, and coincided with a storyline of the demolition of Elliston's Raincoat Factory and the Mission Hall, and the subsequent building of maisonettes opposite the terrace.〔Little, Daran, ''40 Years of Coronation Street'', Granada Media, 2000, p. 45 (ISBN 0-233-99806-3).〕 ''Coronation Street's'' 1968 set was not all that different from the interior version previously used, with the wooden facades that had been used in the studio simply being erected on the new site. The only real change seen on screen was natural light illuminating the street for the first time. In late 1968 the Street was constructed in brick, with roofs and back yards added later. The set was still reduced in scale and quite cramped and even though the pavements and cobbled street were now real, the cobbles were not parallel to the houses, and ran diagonally down the street.〔 The first exterior set was referred to as "the coldest place on earth".〔 by actors and crew since they disliked working on it due to a near-constant wind which blew directly down the street. Filming on the new exterior set was kept to a minimum, not only because the actors disliked the set, but because of the high cost of using film for exterior sequences.〔Little, p. 51.〕 The site later became the New York Street at the now-closed Granada Studios Tour complex. The site of New York Street set has been used again in Coronation Street, notably for Davenports (the firm Sally Webster worked for when she embarked on an affair with her boss, Ian Davenport); the strip club where Lloyd Mullaney met Cheryl Gray and also as the location for Weatherfield's tram stop where Izzy Armstrong was mugged in 2011. In 2012 the site featured as the location of a casino and another strip club in which the character Kylie Platt (''née'' Granger) was working. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coronation Street sets」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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