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− | '''Multiple camera vs. single camera'''
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− | #What is the difference between the two modes of production? | + | #*Who originally articulated it? What does it mean when applied to TV? |
− | #*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. | + | #Polysemy |
− | #**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]. | + | #*"poly-semy" = "many meanings" |
− | #**'''All Groups:''' List at least three aspects of the scene that mark it as multiple-camera. | + | #*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 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.] | + | #*What does "structured polysemy" mean? |
− | #**'''All Groups:''' List at least three multiple-camera aspects of the scene that it shares with the ''AMC'' example. | + | #Discourse |
− | #In which situations is single camera preferred? In which is multiple camera preferred? | + | #*How does theorist John Fiske use the term? |
− | #*'''All Groups:''' List at least two examples of each. | + | #*What is an example of this, from your own television viewing? |
− | #'''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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− | #**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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− | #**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 == |
− | #Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications''. New York: Routledge, 2012. | + | #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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− | #[http://tvcrit.com/find/howimet Hybrid mode of production] in ''How I Met Your Mother''
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− | [[Category:TCF311]] | + | [[Category:JCM311]] |
− | [[Category:TCF311 Discussion]] | + | [[Category:JCM311 Discussion]] |