Editing: Multiple Camera Mode (Discussion)

Multiple camera vs. single camera

Multiple-Camera Production: All My Children

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1. What is the difference between the two modes of production?
   • What is it about scenes from soap operas that mark them as multiple-camera productions--as discussed in Television? (See video clips on Blackboard and screenshots online.)
     • As the World Turns
     • All My Children
     • All Groups: List at least three aspects of these scenes that mark them as multiple-camera.
   • Similarly, how can you tell that a The New Adventures of Old Christine episode, "Ritchie Scores" (8 January 2007) is a multiple-camera sitcom? (See video clip on Blackboard.)
     • All Groups: List at least three multiple-camera aspects of the scene that it shares with the As the World Turns and All My Children examples.
2. In which situations is single camera preferred? In which is multiple camera preferred?
   • All Groups: List at least two examples of each.
3. All Groups: List four single-camera TV shows and four multiple-camera shows, but don't use the examples in the textbook.
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   • Multiple camera:

Multiple-camera exercise: "The Contest," Seinfeld, October 26, 1992

• Pretend you are director Tom Cherones and diagram the camera positions for this scene. Where would you cut? Which camera-position would you use for each shot? Write the camera positions in the margins of the script.

Seinfeld set miniature by Charles Brogdon.

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  Set miniature.

Bibliography

1. Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture. New York: Routledge, 2018.

External links

1. Television Style video examples
2. Seinfeld scene breakdown materials
3. Seinfeld excerpt, see Blackboard.
4. Hybrid mode of production in How I Met Your Mother
5. Multiple-camera editing in Days of Our Lives