BUI301F2022/TV Comedy: Multicamera

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  New Adventures of Old Christine diagram.

Seinfeld's innovations

• Let's recreate for this scene.

1. Where would you cut? Which camera-position would you use for each shot? Write the camera positions in the margins of the script. (If you don't have a printed copy of the script, indicate on your diagram the line number of dialogue that would be shot from each camera position--using this line-numbered version of the script.)

• Below are stills from the recreated set, used in an episode of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm and a set miniature by Charles Brogdon.

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  The set as recreated for Curb Your Enthusiasm.

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  A Curb Your Enthusiasm scene.

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  Set miniature.

Texts & resources

• Jeremy G. Butler, The Sitcom (New York: Routledge, 2020).
• Seinfeld scene breakdown materials