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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.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.
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#*What is it about these two scenes from soap operas that mark them as a multiple-camera production
#**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].
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#**[http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/jbutler/clips/atwt20080201.mp4 ''As the World Turns''] (see ''Television'')
#**'''All Groups:''' List at least three aspects of the scene that mark it as multiple-camera.
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#***[https://tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/TVCrit2018_images_ByChapters/10/ Online screenshots].
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#**[https://tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/AllMyChildren.php ''All My Children''].
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#**'''All Groups:''' List at least three aspects of these scenes that mark them 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] (password: telestylistics).
 
#*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.
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#**'''All Groups:''' List at least three multiple-camera aspects of the scene that it shares with the ''As the World Turns'' 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.
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'''Multiple-camera exercise: "The Contest," ''Seinfeld'', October 26, 1992'''
 
'''Multiple-camera exercise: "The Contest," ''Seinfeld'', October 26, 1992'''
  
*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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*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]. Where would you cut? Which camera-position would you use for each shot?
  
 
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== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==
#Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications''. New York: Routledge, 2012.
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#Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture''. New York: Routledge, 2018.
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
 
#[http://www.tvstylebook.com/video/ ''Television Style'' video examples]
 
#[http://www.tvstylebook.com/video/ ''Television Style'' video examples]
 
#[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T311/SeinfeldSceneBreakdown.php ''Seinfeld'' scene breakdown materials]
 
#[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T311/SeinfeldSceneBreakdown.php ''Seinfeld'' scene breakdown materials]
#[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Seinfeld_TheContest.php Video clip]
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#[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Seinfeld19921118TheContest_SampleScene.php Video clip]
 
#[http://tvcrit.com/find/howimet Hybrid mode of production] in ''How I Met Your Mother''
 
#[http://tvcrit.com/find/howimet Hybrid mode of production] in ''How I Met Your Mother''
  
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Revision as of 18:30, 2 October 2018

Multiple camera vs. single camera

  1. What is the difference between the two modes of production?
    • What is it about these two scenes from soap operas that mark them as a multiple-camera production
    • 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 As the World Turns 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. Where would you cut? Which camera-position would you use for each shot?

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Bibliography

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

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