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#**List at least three aspects of the scene that mark it as multiple-camera.
 
#**List at least three aspects of the scene that mark it as multiple-camera.
 
#*What is it about [http://www.tvstylebook.com/video/as-the-world-turns-scene/ this scene from ''As The World Turns''] (password: telestylistics) that marks it as a multiple-camera production? From 1 February 2008.
 
#*What is it about [http://www.tvstylebook.com/video/as-the-world-turns-scene/ this scene from ''As The World Turns''] (password: telestylistics) that marks it as a multiple-camera production? From 1 February 2008.
#*Compare with the ''All My Children'' scene in ''Television'': [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/tvcritgallery/main.php/v/chapter07/?g2_page=3 frame grabs] and [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/AllMyChildren.htm QuickTime clip].
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#*Compare with the ''All My Children'' scene in ''Television'': [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/tvcritgallery/index.php/chapter07?page=5 frame grabs] and [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/AllMyChildren.htm QuickTime clip].
 
#In which situations is single camera preferred? In which is multiple camera preferred?
 
#In which situations is single camera preferred? In which is multiple camera preferred?
 
#List four single-camera TV shows and four multiple-camera shows, but don't use the examples in the textbook.
 
#List four single-camera TV shows and four multiple-camera shows, but don't use the examples in the textbook.

Revision as of 15:15, 17 November 2011

Multiple camera vs. single camera

  1. What is the difference between the two modes of production?
    • What is it about this The New Adventures of Old Christine episode, “Ritchie Scores” (8 January 2007) that marks it as a multiple-camera production?. See video clip.
      • List at least three aspects of the scene that mark it as multiple-camera.
    • What is it about this scene from As The World Turns (password: telestylistics) that marks it as a multiple-camera production? From 1 February 2008.
    • Compare with the All My Children scene in Television: frame grabs and QuickTime clip.
  2. In which situations is single camera preferred? In which is multiple camera preferred?
  3. List four single-camera TV shows and four multiple-camera shows, but don't use the examples in the textbook.

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

  • Pretend you are director Tom Cherones and map out the camera positions for this scene.

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T311/SeinfeldSetMiniature.jpg

Set miniature by Charles Brogdon.

Bibliography

  1. Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.

External links

  1. Television Style video examples
  2. Seinfeld scene breakdown materials