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Single Camera Production Techniques

A single camera production is exactly what it says on the tin: A production that’s shot with only one camera. There are advantages and disadvantages to a single camera shoot, and different scenarios where it is more useful or less useful than a multi-camera shoot.

The format of the production massively effects whether you would shoot using single camera or not. For example, the British sitcom peepshow is shot on single camera. You can see this because the way one character responds to another doesn’t seem natural; often reactions are overly exaggerated or said in a different tone to what you would expect. However due to the fact that characters in peep show often break the ‘fourth wall’ and speak to the audience, this just adds to the effect that it is just a story. You will find that a lot of comedy TV programmes are shot on single camera, because the jokes that are used don’t require a lot of close up emotion to make you laugh. Most TV shows will be shot in single camera simply because it costs a lot less if you’re shooting on film. There are certain formats that would definitely be shot in multi-camera, such as live events, and sitcoms that have live audiences. This is so that no piece of action is missed. Depending on the scale of a live show it can have anywhere from 4-100+ cameras in a shoot (Such as big arenas like Wembley).

Technically it is easier to shoot single camera, because when it comes to lighting, editing, sound and on-set equipment everything is made much simpler by only viewing one subject at a time. Lighting a subject is difficult in the first place, trying not to make the light look artificial and also not over/under lighting anything. When trying to light multiple subjects there are limits to where you can light because you have to keep all equipment (such as stands) and crew out of two shots at the same time. If you’re shooting single camera, and recording all of one persons lines of dialogue at one time then you have more control over the audio recording. This is because you don’t have to sacrifice where about your microphone is as you would when shooting multi-camera. Editing multi camera can be easier to do, because the shots are already played out in time, however there is a lot of excess footage, for when the scene cuts to the other focus – although this can be beneficial if you find that some of it is useful, for a reaction to something etc. Single Camera is quicker to edit because you have every line of dialogue that you need recorded individually, this means you can edit them together in a linear way, and you know what line of dialogue comes at what point. As I mentioned before, if you’re trying to do a dialogue scene multi-camera then you’re limited in areas that aren’t in shot. If you have a big crew on set and lots of equipment then it will be hard to keep it out of shot and still serving its purpose.

The main use for multi-camera shooting in films is if there are two big stars that are acting together. If you had Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt in a room together, in Se7en for example, you wouldn’t want to waste any of their talent by using stand in actors for over the shoulder shots. This is because good directors value their actors greatly and it would be a shame for a scene to lose quality because it was shot using an inappropriate technique.

In single camera productions you can edit two related clips that were filmed at different times together to make it look as if the clips ran seamlessly into one another. There are countless cuts in actions scenes in movies, for example the plane crash scene in Final Destination 1, we see cut after cut after cut, but our mind tricks us into thinking that it’s one smooth motion. In a multi camera production it’s possible to film scenes like these without stopping the cameras rolling, but it takes a lot more choreography to make the scene run smoothly.

In conclusion most productions are made using single camera because it’s cheaper and you have more control of the environment that you’re in. Not only that but it means there is less crew around which gives a more controlled environment on set, and also you don’t need both actors present to film a scene. Multi-camera shoots are just as important; they are best in live events, or if you don’t want to miss any of an actor’s screen time. The most affordable and suitable choice for most formats would be the single camera production.

Production Log backup

10th October2013: Group Meeting

We discussed ideas for the film and established a suitable plot for the brief.

17th October 2013: Meeting

We decided on suitable locations for where we would shoot and discussed what props we would need and how we could find actors. We decided on what piece of the production folder we would contribute to, so that we could spread the workload evenly

21st October 2013: First day of shooting

Early in the day we bought all of the props needed for the shoot, then we proceeded to go to Simon’s house where Me, Simon and Alex recorded some scenes in the bathroom. Whilst we were doing that Kasia tried to figure out the problem with the microphone that we needed for the next scene but we established that it was a technical fault and would have to record it the next day

22nd October 2013: Second day of shooting

We got to Simon’s house at 4:00pm and set up the equipment that we needed to use. Then we started filming at 5:00pm and captured footage of Karolina, Simon and Stephen’s conversation. When it was dark we filmed scenes of Karolina in the allotment, although some were too dark to use due to the lens on the camera.

24th October 2013: First day of editing

Kasia began editing at 11am and finished at 5pm and ended up with an almost finished piece, the only thing left to do is touch it up and burn it onto a DVD.

25th October 2013: Second day of editing

Kasia finished editing the film and burnt it onto a DVD and saved some backup files, we then preceded to hand the project in.

Revisiting the film

20th November 2013: First day of shooting

We filmed a scene of Simon, Stephen and Karolina having a conversation in a park

27th November 2013: Second day of shooting

We shot the bulk of the remaining footage that we needed to improve the film and it went well, we got all of the footage that we needed and more.

29th November 2013: First day of editing

Today Kasia and Alex are going through the footage and replacing parts of the first draft of the film to make a sensible storyline, and then finishing the edit today as well.