#multi camera

Multi Camera Productions:

These types of productions use more than one camera to record the action. This would have the advantage of convenience for the people during the production stages and for the consumers.

It is faster to produce a multi camera media product as it takes less takes to record the footage, the editors have the convenience of choosing which camera angle to use to conjure the director’s ideas. This is why shows which were designed to release an episode at least once a week choose to use more than one camera. 

In my opinion, the most significant disadvantage of using a multi camera setup is that there is less creativity in camera angles to convey a narrative, which supports my idea that multi camera productions only exist for pure consumption and have no deeper meaning.

The Big Bang Theory:

An American situational comedy created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. The show was originally filmed in front of a live studio audience this clearly expresses that this show was filmed using a multi camera setup as there would be no time to set up a single camera especially if there is a live audience watching the production. The television show received mixed reviews from critics but still favourable for another couple seasons to be commissioned. Later seasons of the show had a below average reception, most of the reviews criticized the show for its decline in comedic quality. After receiving this type of response, I would assume that they would stop recording in front of a live studio audience, however would keep filming using a multi camera setup to meet the codes and conventions of an average American situational comedy.

The Big Bang Theory managed to get a few awards, most of them were due to the actor Jim Parsons, who portrays Sheldon Cooper. In 2010 Parsons won a Prime time Emmy Award of Outstanding Lead Acton in a Comedy Series, in 2011 he won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by and Actor in a Television Series, he was also awarded another Emmy for Best Actor in a Comedy Series and then again in 2014.  

The IT Crowd:

To contrast the awful aspects of american situational comedies, I have chosen to talk about a television show that I’ve actually enjoyed, but it might be culturally biased.

The IT Crowd is a British situational comedy created and written by Graham Linehan. Against public opinion, Linehan deliberately chose to video-record the production in front of a live studio audience, doing this at the time was considered risky. He wanted to challenge the common trend of people thinking that sitcoms are a dying medium. 

I would consider The IT Crowd to be a multi camera television show as the main location is a set in a studio, which had a live studio audience, however, there are multiple instances where the show would cut to outside of the set resulting in the production switching to a single camera setup. 

The IT Crowd has won awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTAs), the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Rose d’OR television entertainment awards.

The similarities that I can think of between The Big Bang Theory and The IT Crowd is that they are both situational comedies, they use multi camera techniques, they used canned laughter and they have a similar set of characters (a couple of nerds and a character which gives contrast to the nerdy characters to set them straight). 

If they’re so similar, then why do I think that The IT Crowd is better than The Big Bang Theory?

The IT Crowd hasn’t been dragged on by the studio, like the saying goes ‘All Good Things Must Come to An End’. Having a smaller amount of episodes allows jokes to be fresh and original, it would also reduce the likelihood of using the same joke again, unlike The Big Bang Theory where you hear jokes which sound similar, this would probably explain why The Big Bang Theory had a decline in viewer interest as it seemed like the show would never end. 

Techniques of Narrative Multi Camera:

Each narrative multi camera production should have at least one camera for each character and two cameras to capture the whole set. When a character is talking, the vision mixer or editor would switch to a shot of that character, following this, would be another close up of the other characters for their reactions.

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Magazine Show

In this module, as a class, we have been assigned a group project of creating a fifteen minute magazine show, showing off our multi-camera skills. 

We firstly tried to realise what the elements of a magazine show are, listing different shows and series that use multi-camera. We came up with shows like, Graham Norton (for his use of stand up at the beginning of his show, interview in the middle, ending with a musical performance and a gag, otherwise known on his show as The Big Red Chair.) Another show that came to mind instantly for me was BBC’s Children In Need, as its use of hosts and different segments, whether they be interviews, music or even made of the show tv specials, it garnered a lot of the segments we thought you would find in a magazine show. 

Through finding multi-camera specific shows we then could figure out what segments you could have in magazine show, we did this via brainstorming and using our already prominent knowledge, here is what we came up with:

A few of my favourites are:

- Skit/Sketch

- Game Show

- QVC style show

I personally think these would be great opportunities to create something comedic (with that being my preferred genre) a skit/sketch can be anything but imagine a game show based around something completely ridiculous like taking The Chase but actually having the competitors be chased around the streets by The Chaser whilst being asked multiple choice questions, make it even scarier/funnier by having the competitor be an escaped convict and the Chaser be a police officer, and the convict is playing for their freedom. Saturday Night Live has some great comedic game show examples, here’s one of my favourites;

I love how they’ve taken the traditional Supermarket Spree and by enhancing and overexaggerating one of the characters it makes it so much more intense.

The QVC style show would be easy to make comedic as well, just have them sell off ridiculous items like Candles scented to daily tasks like ‘Doing the Dishes’ and ‘How about Hoovering’. 

This is what a multi-camera set up looks like. This is effective because it allows the cameras to cover all the important areas around the table, so while recording nothing important is going to be missed from these two character’s conversations. The cameras are also positioned perfectly so that they provide a few interesting and varied camera angels. For example, camera A places the woman on the right hand side, and camera C places the man on the left hand side. This makes it look more like a conversation, since the space left in the frame is supposed to be where the table is. Showing the distance between these two as they are talking. Cameras A & C are also close enough that you can read the character’s expressions – like in camera C where the man is looking smug. But most importantly, none of the cameras are in the way of each other. For example, in shot B, you can’t see camera A & C popping into view. It’s important that this doesn’t happen, since it can ruin the immersion and look unprofessional. To make sure this doesn’t happen, someone (like the floor manager), could have a headset that talks to each of the cameramen. Giving them cues on when to move or when to wait and let the other cameramen move.

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