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'''Multiple camera vs. single camera'''
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==Basic definitions==
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#What is the difference between the two modes of production?
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http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Sopranos.php
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#*What is it about these two scenes from soap operas that mark them as multiple-camera productions?
 
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#**[http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/jbutler/clips/atwt20080201.mp4 ''As the World Turns''] (see ''Television'')
 
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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.
 
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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?
 
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#**[http://www.tvstylebook.com/video/the-new-adventures-of-old-christine-scene/ See video clip] (password: telestylistics).
 
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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.
 
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#In which situations is single camera preferred? In which is multiple camera preferred?
 
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#*'''All Groups:''' List at least two examples of each.
 
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#'''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...
 
  
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'''Multiple-camera exercise: "The Contest," ''Seinfeld'', October 26, 1992'''
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''' Group 1 '''
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#Establishing shot
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#*Re-establishing shot
  
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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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'''Group 2'''
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#The shot-counter shot editing pattern (also known as "shot-reverse shot")
  
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|title=''Seinfeld'' set miniature by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/24682838@N05/ Charles Brogdon].
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#Match cut
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#180° rule
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#*Screen direction
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#*How/when might this rule be broken in a TV program?
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==Decoupage exercise==
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*Do a sample ''decoupage''--as explained on pp. 212-214--of shots 33-44 from the Chevrolet commercial.
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**''Each student'' should start by drawing an overhead view similar to [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/tvcritgallery/index.php/chapter07/Fig07-07_ShotCounterShot Figure 7.7].
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**As a group, answer the following decoupage questions from the textbook:
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*#How is the scene’s space, the area in which the action takes place, introduced to the viewer? Does an establishing shot occur at the start of the scene (or later in it)?
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*#Skip.
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*#Do these angles adhere to the 180° rule? Is screen direction maintained? If not, why is the viewer not disoriented? Or if the space is ambiguous, what narrative purpose does that serve?
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*#Skip.
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*#Is an alternating editing pattern used? Is shot-reverse shot used?
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*#How does the camera relate to the character’s perspective? Are there point-of-view or subjective shots? If so, how are those shots cued or marked? That is, what tells us that they are subjective or point-ofview shots?
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*#Is match-on-action used? Are there jump cuts?
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*#How does the last shot of the scene bring it to a conclusion?
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*#Skip.
  
 
== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==
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#Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture''. New York: Routledge, 2018.
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#Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications''.
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
 
#[http://www.tvstylebook.com/video/ ''Television Style'' video examples]
 
#[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/Seinfeld19921118TheContest_SampleScene.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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#[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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Revision as of 16:39, 15 November 2011

Basic definitions

Provide a definition of these terms and describe how/if it is used in the Sopranos excerpt.

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Sopranos.php

Group 1

  1. Establishing shot
    • Re-establishing shot

Group 2

  1. The shot-counter shot editing pattern (also known as "shot-reverse shot")

Group 3

  1. Match cut
    • Match-on-action
    • Eyeline match
  2. Jump cut

Group 4

  1. 180° rule
    • Screen direction
    • How/when might this rule be broken in a TV program?

Decoupage exercise

  • Do a sample decoupage--as explained on pp. 212-214--of shots 33-44 from the Chevrolet commercial.
    • Each student should start by drawing an overhead view similar to Figure 7.7.
    • As a group, answer the following decoupage questions from the textbook:
    1. How is the scene’s space, the area in which the action takes place, introduced to the viewer? Does an establishing shot occur at the start of the scene (or later in it)?
    2. Skip.
    3. Do these angles adhere to the 180° rule? Is screen direction maintained? If not, why is the viewer not disoriented? Or if the space is ambiguous, what narrative purpose does that serve?
    4. Skip.
    5. Is an alternating editing pattern used? Is shot-reverse shot used?
    6. How does the camera relate to the character’s perspective? Are there point-of-view or subjective shots? If so, how are those shots cued or marked? That is, what tells us that they are subjective or point-ofview shots?
    7. Is match-on-action used? Are there jump cuts?
    8. How does the last shot of the scene bring it to a conclusion?
    9. Skip.

Bibliography

  1. Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications.

External links

  1. Television Style video examples
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