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'''Multiple camera vs. single camera'''
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==Definitions==
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#Flow
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#What is the difference between the two modes of production?
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#*Who originally articulated it? What does it mean when applied to TV?
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#*What is it about [http://www.tvstylebook.com/video/as-the-world-turns-scene/ this scene from ''As The World Turns''] (password: telestylistics) that marks it as a multiple-camera production? From 1 February 2008.
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#Polysemy
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#**Compare it with the ''All My Children'' scene in ''Television'': [http://www.tvstylebook.com/pix/chapter1/ illustrations] and [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/AllMyChildren.htm QuickTime clip].
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#*"poly-semy" = "many meanings"
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#**'''All Groups:''' List at least three aspects of the scene that mark it as multiple-camera.
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#*We saw polysemy in action in our discussion of ''The Andy Griffith Show''. What are some specific examples of polysemy from your own television viewing?
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#*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?. [http://www.tvstylebook.com/video/the-new-adventures-of-old-christine-scene/ See video clip.]
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#*What does "structured polysemy" mean?
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#**'''All Groups:''' List at least three multiple-camera aspects of the scene that it shares with the ''AMC'' example.
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#Discourse
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#In which situations is single camera preferred? In which is multiple camera preferred?
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#*How does theorist John Fiske use the term?
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#*'''All Groups:''' List at least two examples of each.
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#*What is an example of this, from your own television viewing?
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#'''All Groups:''' List four single-camera TV shows and four multiple-camera shows, but don't use the examples in the textbook.
 
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#*'''Groups 1 and 2''':
 
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#**Single camera: Walking Dead, Arrested Development, The Office, 30 Rock
 
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#**Multiple camera: Big Bang Theory, Home Improvement, Two and a Half Men, Two Broke Girls
 
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#*'''Group 3 and 4''':
 
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#**Single camera: Community, Scrubs, Arrow, Breaking Bad, Scandal, Orange is the New Black
 
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#**Multiple camera: Everybody Loves Raymond, Blue Mountain State, Friends, Roseanne
 
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'''Multiple-camera exercise: "The Contest," ''Seinfeld'', October 26, 1992'''
 
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*Pretend you are director Tom Cherones and map out the camera positions [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T311/SEINFELDScript.pdf for this scene].
 
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== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==
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#Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications''. New York: Routledge, 2012.
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#Jeremy G. Butler, ''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture'' (New York: Routledge, 2018).
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#[http://www.tvstylebook.com/video/ ''Television Style'' video examples]
 
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#[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T311/SeinfeldSceneBreakdown.php ''Seinfeld'' scene breakdown materials]
 
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#[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Seinfeld_TheContest.php Video clip]
 
  
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Revision as of 21:31, 14 August 2019

Definitions

  1. Flow
    • Who originally articulated it? What does it mean when applied to TV?
  2. Polysemy
    • "poly-semy" = "many meanings"
    • We saw polysemy in action in our discussion of The Andy Griffith Show. What are some specific examples of polysemy from your own television viewing?
    • What does "structured polysemy" mean?
  3. Discourse
    • How does theorist John Fiske use the term?
    • What is an example of this, from your own television viewing?

Bibliography

  1. Jeremy G. Butler, Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture (New York: Routledge, 2018).
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