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==Single-Camera productions: Behind the scenes==
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File:Addams Family Still.jpg|alt=The Addams Family, circa 1960.|''The Addams Family'', circa 1965
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File:Andy Griffith Show street scene.jpg|alt=Promotional photograph, The Andy Griffith Show. From the episode, "Barney's Replacement," broadcast October 9, 1961.|''The Andy Griffith Show'', 10/6/1961 episode
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==''Scrubs'' decoupage exercise==
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Diagram the opening scene from ''Scrubs'' (video on Blackboard and [http://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/BUI301/Scrubs_20050215/index.html screenshots over here]). Does your diagram look [https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/BUI301/Scrubs_20050215/Scrubs_20050215_diagram.jpg like this?]
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==Format (aka, the televisual "schema")==
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File:ReservationDogsS1E2qq00 00 17qq00001.jpg|alt=Reservation Dogs screenshot.
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Table 5.3 "Multiple-camera and single-camera schemas" (''Television Style'', p. 196) summarizes the differences between the two. What elements of the single-camera televisual schema can you identify in the opening scene of ''Reservation Dogs'' ([https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/BUI301/F22/resdogsjb/index.html see screenshots], directed by Sydney Freeland?
  
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===''Seinfeld'' scene reenactment===
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===''Seinfeld'' scene reenactment ''as a single-camera production''===
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A reenactment of [https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/T311/SEINFELDScript.pdf this scene] from "The Contest" as a series of still photographs.
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We will reshoot [https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/T311/SEINFELDScript.pdf this scene] from "The Contest" as a ''televisual'' scene--in a series of still photographs.
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*[https://vimeo.com/766951657 The resulting video!]
  
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'''Camera operators (see below): please be sure to shoot images in "landscape" format.'''
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*The scene starts with Jerry and George seated at a table in Tuomey. Elaine is in Gorgas Library.
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**Kate and Ava will shoot "in-studio" (on the "set" that is the Tuomey interior), upstairs in the faculty office.
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**Daisy and Logan will shoot Archi in Gorgas Library, walking to Tuomey, and walking up the stairs. (Optional: shoot Archi gazing at a JFK, Jr. type.)
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**Alex and Marguerite will shoot B-roll footage--six photographs of the exterior of Tuomey and Gorgas and random shots around the Quad.
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*Instead of Elaine entering on her line, "...John F. Kennedy Jr.", she will phone Jerry. Jerry will put her on speaker so that he and George can talk to her.
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*After Jerry says, "Good one," Elaine says, "Hang on, I'm almost at Tuomey." She then enters Tuomey and stands next to George and Jerry's table, which she says her long monologue.
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====Cast and crew====
 
*Cast
 
*Cast
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**Logan as Jerry
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**Ava as Jerry
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**Ava as George
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**Josh as George
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**Marguerite as Elaine
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**Archi as Elaine
  
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*Crew
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**Alex: camera (b-roll)
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**Marguerite: camera (b-roll) - grip, gaffer, make-up
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**Kate: camera (in-studio)
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**Zach: camera (in-studio) - grip, gaffer, make-up
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**Daisy: camera (remote)
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**Logan: camera (remote) - grip, gaffer, make-up
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**Gardner: script continuity, security, craft services
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File:01 establishing shot.jpg|alt=Seinfeld reenactment.|Establishing shot of the diner, with Jerry and George.
 
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File:10 Elaine - Queen of the Castle.jpg|alt=Seinfeld reenactment. |Elaine: "I am queen of the castle."
 
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== Texts & resources ==
 
== Texts & resources ==
 
*Jeremy G. Butler, ''Television Style'' (New York: Routledge, 2010).
 
*Jeremy G. Butler, ''Television Style'' (New York: Routledge, 2010).
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*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/T311/SeinfeldSceneBreakdown.php ''Seinfeld'' scene breakdown materials]
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*[http://www.tvstylebook.com/video/ ''Television Style'' video examples]
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*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/BUI301/F22/resdogsjb/index.html ''Reservation Dogs'' screenshots]
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*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/T311/ChevCommFromTVCrit/ Chevrolet commercial screenshots]
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*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/BUI301/Scrubs_20050215/ ''Scrubs'' screenshots]
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*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/BUI301/SOPRANOS_S1_D3/ ''The Sopranos'' screenshots]
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*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/T112/classicism/index.php#editing Classical Editing Examples]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 18:33, 3 November 2022

Single-Camera productions: Behind the scenes

  • The Addams Family, circa 1960.

    The Addams Family, circa 1965

  • Promotional photograph, The Andy Griffith Show. From the episode, "Barney's Replacement," broadcast October 9, 1961.

    The Andy Griffith Show, 10/6/1961 episode

Scrubs decoupage exercise

Diagram the opening scene from Scrubs (video on Blackboard and screenshots over here). Does your diagram look like this?

Format (aka, the televisual "schema")

  • Reservation Dogs screenshot.

Table 5.3 "Multiple-camera and single-camera schemas" (Television Style, p. 196) summarizes the differences between the two. What elements of the single-camera televisual schema can you identify in the opening scene of Reservation Dogs (see screenshots, directed by Sydney Freeland?

Seinfeld scene reenactment as a single-camera production

We will reshoot this scene from "The Contest" as a televisual scene--in a series of still photographs.

Camera operators (see below): please be sure to shoot images in "landscape" format.

  • The scene starts with Jerry and George seated at a table in Tuomey. Elaine is in Gorgas Library.
    • Kate and Ava will shoot "in-studio" (on the "set" that is the Tuomey interior), upstairs in the faculty office.
    • Daisy and Logan will shoot Archi in Gorgas Library, walking to Tuomey, and walking up the stairs. (Optional: shoot Archi gazing at a JFK, Jr. type.)
    • Alex and Marguerite will shoot B-roll footage--six photographs of the exterior of Tuomey and Gorgas and random shots around the Quad.
  • Instead of Elaine entering on her line, "...John F. Kennedy Jr.", she will phone Jerry. Jerry will put her on speaker so that he and George can talk to her.
  • After Jerry says, "Good one," Elaine says, "Hang on, I'm almost at Tuomey." She then enters Tuomey and stands next to George and Jerry's table, which she says her long monologue.

Cast and crew

  • Cast
    • Ava as Jerry
    • Josh as George
    • Archi as Elaine
  • Crew
    • Alex: camera (b-roll)
    • Marguerite: camera (b-roll) - grip, gaffer, make-up
    • Kate: camera (in-studio)
    • Zach: camera (in-studio) - grip, gaffer, make-up
    • Daisy: camera (remote)
    • Logan: camera (remote) - grip, gaffer, make-up
    • Gardner: script continuity, security, craft services


Texts & resources

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