Editing: Multiple Camera Mode (Discussion)

Multiple camera vs. single camera

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• What is it about scenes from soap operas as they appear onscreen that mark them as multiple-camera productions and not single-camera productions--as discussed in Television? See video clips on Blackboard and screenshots online from:
  • 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 Old Christine scene that it shares with the As the World Turns and All My Children examples.
• In which situations is single camera preferred? In which is multiple camera preferred?
  • All Groups: List at least two examples of each.
• 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