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#*Similarly, how can you tell that this ''The New Adventures of Old Christine'' episode, “Ritchie Scores” (8 January 2007) is a multiple-camera sitcom?
 
#*Similarly, how can you tell that this ''The New Adventures of Old Christine'' episode, “Ritchie Scores” (8 January 2007) is a multiple-camera sitcom?
 
#**[http://www.tvstylebook.com/video/the-new-adventures-of-old-christine-scene/ See video clip] (password: telestylistics).
 
#**[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 ''As the World Turns'' 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'' and ''All My Children'' examples.
 
#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.
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#*Single camera: The Office, Grey's Anatomy, Ghost Whisperer, Lost, Breaking Bad, Handmaid's Tale, Game of Thrones
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#*Multiple camera: Full House, Suite Life of Z.C., Cheers, Drake & Josh, Fresh Prince...
  
 
'''Multiple-camera exercise: "The Contest," ''Seinfeld'', October 26, 1992'''
 
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#[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Seinfeld19921118TheContest_SampleScene.php Video clip]
 
#[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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#[http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/jbutler/clips/multiple-camera-editing-in-soap-operas/video_view Multiple-camera editing in ''Days of Our Lives'']
  
 
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  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 multiple-camera productions?
    • Similarly, how can you tell that this The New Adventures of Old Christine episode, “Ritchie Scores” (8 January 2007) is a multiple-camera sitcom?
      • 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 and All My Children examples.
  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: The Office, Grey's Anatomy, Ghost Whisperer, Lost, Breaking Bad, Handmaid's Tale, Game of Thrones
    • Multiple camera: Full House, Suite Life of Z.C., Cheers, Drake & Josh, Fresh Prince...

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
  5. Multiple-camera editing in Days of Our Lives