Coronation Streets Domestic Violence Story Continues, By James

As Mark has already outlined in his domestic violence Coronation Street currently have a story which centers on domestic violence, similar to our short film the plot will centre around the male being the victim. After watching the episode tonight there are some positive things that I feel we can take from tonight's episode that we have recorded in our short film.
The video above shows how Kirsty takes out anger on Tyrone jealous at the fact that Tyrone spoke with Fiz. The close-up shots in Coronation Street tonight show the facial expressions of the characters, similar to the shots of our short film where we show Amy exerting force on Sam before having close up shots showing the pain and anger. 

Coronation Street uses shots of Tyrone mobile phones to show the possessiveness that Kirsty holds over him. In our short film Amy constantly texts and phones Sam as she wants to know what Sam is doing 24/7.

We also have shots that show the facial expression of two characters. The two shots allow us to focus on both of the characters and how there actions feature on each other. In Coronation Street Tyrone tries to be affectionate to try and stop Kirsty's tempers flare, the two shot shows Sam trying to be nice to Amy by reaching out of her hand before Amy hits Sam with a cushion.

Coronation Street also has a third character, "Fiz" who tries to help Tyrone. Fiz also acts as a catalyst for a confrontation between Tyrone and Kirsty after Kirsty gets jealous. In our media a meeting between Sam, Amy and Laura results in Amy getting incredibly jealous and possessive  and lashing out at Sam.

Coronation Street has several episodes a week which means it can run storyline for months, this means that it can pan out a storyline for months. Our film is five minutes long which as a result means we need to include various signs of a deteriorating relationship, the flashback set up of our film will allow us to do this by modifying the date on several shots. 

One thing that I also noticed from Coronation Street was that on the end board was a support number. Mark originally posted this in his research but we could potentially show it at the end of our media film as an add on to the closing sequence. This just another possibility for our short film. It would also bring awareness to the campaign to stop domestic violence.


After watching tonight's episode I now feel confident that our short film will be realistic after watching the conventions of tonight's episode.

You can view the episode on ITV Player.