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#What is the difference between the two modes of production?
 
#What is the difference between the two modes of production?
#*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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#*What is it about [http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/jbutler/clips/atwt20080201.mp4 this scene from ''As The World Turns''] that marks it as a multiple-camera production? From 1 February 2008.
#**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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#**Compare it with the ''All My Children'' scene in ''Television'': [http://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/_author/butler-9780415883283/gallery-09.php illustrations] and [https://tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/AllMyChildren.php video clip].
 
#**'''All Groups:''' List at least three aspects of the scene that mark it as multiple-camera.
 
#**'''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?. [http://www.tvstylebook.com/video/the-new-adventures-of-old-christine-scene/ See video clip.]
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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] (password: telestylistics).
 
#**'''All Groups:''' List at least three multiple-camera aspects of the scene that it shares with the ''AMC'' example.
 
#**'''All Groups:''' List at least three multiple-camera aspects of the scene that it shares with the ''AMC'' example.
 
#In which situations is single camera preferred? In which is multiple camera preferred?
 
#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 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.
#*'''Groups 1 and 2''':
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#*Single camera:  
#**Single camera: Walking Dead, Arrested Development, The Office, 30 Rock
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#*Multiple camera:  
#**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'''
 
'''Multiple-camera exercise: "The Contest," ''Seinfeld'', October 26, 1992'''

Revision as of 21:08, 26 September 2016

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 that marks it as a multiple-camera production? From 1 February 2008.
      • Compare it with the All My Children scene in Television: illustrations and video 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 (password: telestylistics).
      • 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.
    • 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.

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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