Editing: Multiple Camera Mode (Discussion)
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- What is the difference between the two modes of production?
- What is it about these two scenes from soap operas that mark them as multiple-camera productions?
- As the World Turns (see Television)
- All My Children.
- All Groups: List at least three aspects of these scenes that mark them as multiple-camera.
- Similarly, how can you tell that this The New Adventures of Old Christine episode, “Ritchie Scores” (8 January 2007) is a multiple-camera sitcom?
- See video clip (password: telestylistics).
- All Groups: List at least three multiple-camera aspects of the scene that it shares with the As the World Turns and All My Children examples.
- What is it about these two scenes from soap operas that mark them as multiple-camera productions?
- 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.
- Single camera:
- Multiple camera:
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?
Bibliography
- Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture. New York: Routledge, 2018.