What Methods and Techniques Do Multi-Camera Television Productions Use and How Do You Think the Audience Are Intended to Respond to These Techniques? in Your Opinion, What Are the Strengths of the Shows Construction?

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“What methods and techniques do multi-camera television productions use and how do you think the audience are intended to respond to these techniques? In your opinion, what are the strengths of the shows construction?” Multi camera is mostly live performed shows which are recorded within a studio using 3-4 cameras. Multi camera shows are mainly used for TV shows that contain a significant amount of episodes within a series. This is because multi camera productions are a much quicker and more efficient way of recording compared to single camera. They are more useful if a show has a tight deadline or has a higher demand, for example EastEnders and coronation street which are soap operas and having 4 shows boasting a week therefore they are extremely high demand for the show. Attempting to produce this using single camera would take at least twice as long therefore the schedule of 4 shows a week most probably wouldn’t met. The difference between single and multi-camera are quite evident. single camera shows are used mainly on more high budget projects and have a very in depth post production stage as all shots taken in single camera are require to be fully edited once filmed this makes the process a lot more time consuming and therefore requires a larger group of filmmakers at different stages of products. The end result is usually more of a professional standard than multi camera as more time and detail will have been added. Multi camera shows are used when a show requires a speedier production and performs a lot of aspects of post-production during filming which speeds up the production extensively. During filming a multi camera there is a vision mixer who cuts between shots as the performance is taking place, compared to doing so once the shots have been recorded. This saves going through footage and choosing which to use in a scene as you would in a single

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