Multiple-camera setup

Multiple-camera setup

For our latest college project for Steve, we had to look at how single Camera and Multi camera works. Multi Camera is used for a lot of shows. I found some research about single camera and a lot of shows still use it today. Some of the shows that use it today are; Malcolm in the Middle, Scrubs, The Office, Glee, Modern Family, Community, Louie, Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory. We have used Multi camera for our media show. Our show is a dating quiz show and a lot of comedy has been thrown in there. For our show we set three cameras in the middle of the set; one on the far left, one in the middle and one on the far right. In the studio we had a room on the far left with multiple TV screens for the vision mixer. The information I have learned about Multi Camera, which used three cameras was the Queen’s Messenger which was broadcasted in the year 1928. hen it comes to using Multi camera for big budget Hollywood films, sometimes they use two to three cameras to film a scene but most films film using a single camera. One of the first ever sitcoms that used multi camera was the long running series called I Love Lucy. The show in 2007 was voted by Time Magazine 100, the best show of all time. The show became so popular that they made a few spin off films. Amos 'n' Andy was a comedy show for the black community. The show ran from 1943 to 1955. With college we went to see a Multi camera show called Pointless. The show is presented by Alexander Armstrong, and co hosted by Richard Osman. The show is a quiz show, where one of the contestants has to aim to get a pointless answer. On the right hand side of the set they have a score board with a line that starts from the top, it starts from 100 and can stop anywhere. To get the questions they go around asking the general public a lot of questions and the show just flows from there. A record jackpot was won on the show on Wednesday the 21st of November. Even when you dont win on Pointless, you still win a Pointless trophy which people will love forever. After watching the show Pointless, it gave us ideas for our second Multi camera show. Our second Multi camera show was about facing your fears. For example someone who is scared of spiders, snakes, dogs and heights with people who are scared of certain foods. I feel like the second show flowed a lot better than the first one. I thought everything was a lot better prepared. I thought Abi was an excellent director. She had a clear mind on what she wanted to do and she was very serious when she needed to be, which helped us crack on with work. If you compare our second show to our first show, everything with the first show was left to the last minute and was very rushed but we managed to pull it off and people enjoyed it. For our second show I was asked to find questions on films. The questions about film could have been about anything; for example, which film in 1976 won best film or which is the best selling film of all time. That would be the film Avatar. For our fear show we looked at the show Fear Factor for some inspiration. We wanted to create our opening title squence like the Fear Factor one but that proved to be too hard, so we used our teacher Steve for the opening sequence. One thing with Multi camera, is it gives the director less control of shots but the process is a lot faster and less expensive than a single camera setup. In many Hollywood movies they use the single camera technique. In more recent times many big hollywood films use more than one camera.