Editing: Multiple Camera Mode (Discussion)

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 (password: telestylistics) that marks it as a multiple-camera production? From 1 February 2008.
     • Compare it with the All My Children scene in Television: illustrations 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 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.
   • Groups 1 and 2:
     • Single camera: Walking Dead, Arrested Development, The Office, 30 Rock
     • Multiple camera: Big Bang Theory, Home Improvement, Two and a Half Men, Two Broke Girls
   • Group 3 and 4:
     • Single camera: Community, Scrubs, Arrow, Breaking Bad, Scandal, Orange is the New Black
     • Multiple camera: Everybody Loves Raymond, Blue Mountain State, Friends, Roseanne

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

• Pretend you are director Tom Cherones and map out the camera positions for this scene.

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