Editing: Multiple Camera Mode (Discussion)
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Multiple camera vs. single camera
- What is the difference between the two modes of production?
- 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 it with the All My Children scene in Television: illustrations and QuickTime clip.
- All Groups: List at least three aspects of the scene that mark it as multiple-camera.
- 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.
- All Groups: List at least three multiple-camera aspects of the scene that it shares with the AMC example.
- 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.
- 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.
- Groups 1 and 2:
- Single camera:
- Multiple camera:
- Group 3 and 4:
- Single camera:
- Multiple camera:
- Groups 1 and 2:
Multiple-camera exercise: "The Contest," Seinfeld, October 26, 1992
- Pretend you are director Tom Cherones and map out the camera positions for this scene.
Bibliography
- Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. New York: Routledge, 2012.