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#*'''All Groups:''' List at least two examples of each. | #*'''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. | #'''All Groups:''' List four single-camera TV shows and four multiple-camera shows, but don't use the examples in the textbook. | ||
+ | #*'''Group 2''': | ||
+ | #**Single camera: ''Modern Family'', ''The Office'' | ||
+ | #**Multiple camera: ''Two and a Half Men'', ''The Big Bang Theory'' | ||
+ | #*'''Group 4''': | ||
+ | #**Single camera: ''Breaking Bad'', ''Boardwalk Empire'', ''ER'' | ||
+ | #**Multiple camera: ''Ellen'', ''Family Feud'', ''Roseanne'', ''Golden Girls'' | ||
==Multiple-camera exercise: "The Contest," ''Seinfeld'', October 26, 1992== | ==Multiple-camera exercise: "The Contest," ''Seinfeld'', October 26, 1992== |
Revision as of 22:42, 22 November 2011
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: frame grabs 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 ATWT 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.
- Group 2:
- Single camera: Modern Family, The Office
- Multiple camera: Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory
- Group 4:
- Single camera: Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, ER
- Multiple camera: Ellen, Family Feud, Roseanne, Golden Girls
- Group 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.
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T311/SeinfeldSetMiniature.jpg
Set miniature by Charles Brogdon.
Bibliography
- Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.