Editing: Multiple Camera Mode (Discussion)

Editing: Multiple Camera Mode

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