Comparing Holby City & Coronation Street Openings.

Comparing the Holby City & Coronation Street Openings is quite simple, below you will find both linked below to youtube for reference.

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To compare Holby City and Coronation Street let's first look at Coronation Street in detail and then compare it to Holby City. Coronation Street, or Corrie, has quite a few unique features in it's opening however all connote a slow and steady storyline. The music is a slow beat traditional sounding music similar to the surroundings you are shown within the opening, an old city urban area where it's clear all the action is going to happen. The traditional, or old, feeling is further enforced by the condition of the area, it is clearly old as shown by the cobbled street and brick work looking very worn for wear.

There are very few camera angles used throughout the opening of Corrie due to how no characters are even displayed! You gain an Ariel shot of the area as well as some medium shots of the buildings with some zooming in however you never see a close up of a person or figure. The editing techniques are also rather bland with very little used apat from some fading affects between different shots. All of this points to a slow and steady drama, not faced pasted or adventurous.

Holby City on the other hand is another bottle of fish entirely! Where as the music in Coronation Street is slow beat Holby City is filled with a heart monitor beeping, connoting a Medical Drama along with tension filled music slowly getting faster throughout the opening. The music is further enforced by the adding of different instruments throughout the opening, far different to Coronation Street. This may point to the difference audiences envolved, and the different age groups due to the different pace of music, Corrie clearly is more interested in the steady drama lover where as Holby City would like the more active viewers.

The shot types and editing techniques further enforce this view, on how the picture is always busy with sometimes up to 2 different scenes in the same shot. This connotes a fast paced drama where you will be on the edge of your seat throughout! The editing techniques themselves are very impressive by the way the picture is layered multiple times, with the blue tinge of a background, a heart monitor display and finally the scene! Compared to Corrie this is a vast improvement.

The camera angles are far more numerous and shown throughout Holby City's opening with extreme close ups of the medical equipment and, what we can only assume, characters running quickly across the video. All of these close ups of medical equipment and running people add to the Mise En Scene of an image of a real medical institute! It's believable that it is actually a surgery.

Overall the differences between Holby City and Coronation Street is large, however this could be quickly explained by the different audiences that each drama which to engage. Coronation Street is obviously interested in the long time watcher, drawing the story out. Where as Holby City obviously wishes to engage those that want fast paced action where life or death are in the balance.