Editing: Multiple Camera Mode (Discussion)

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Multiple camera vs. single camera

  1. What is the difference between the two modes of production?
    • What is it about this scene from As The World Turns that marks it as a multiple-camera production? From 1 February 2008.
      • Compare it with the All My Children scene in Television: illustrations and video 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 (password: telestylistics).
      • All Groups: List at least three multiple-camera aspects of the scene that it shares with the AMC example.
  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.
    • Single camera: Trailer Park Boys, Walking Dead, Deadwood, Breaking Bad
    • Multiple camera: Two Broke Girls, Friends, Big Bang Theory, Cheers

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

  • Pretend you are director Tom Cherones and map out the camera positions for this scene. Where would you cut? Which camera-position would you use for each shot?

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Bibliography

  1. Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. New York: Routledge, 2012.

External links

  1. Television Style video examples
  2. Seinfeld scene breakdown materials
  3. Video clip
  4. Hybrid mode of production in How I Met Your Mother