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Types of Single Camera Drama

Series A series, in most terms, whether single camera drama or not, is an on-going ‘series’ of episodes. An example of a single camera drama series would be The Walking Dead. I can understand that there may be benefits to using single camera techniques with certain actors, as it lends them the opportunity to get ‘into’ the scene that they are portraying, without halts for camera movements or otherwise, as they will film from another angle thereafter if needs be. However, I can also see how this could affect continuity. If everything has to be done in one shot, when you move the camera to perhaps get an alternative shot, the actors might not be stood the same, or use the same actions, so it would be down to editors to make everything run through coherently in post. Serial One example of a Serial would be ‘The Crown’, a netflix series that was made to have a set list of episodes, longer than your average television show’s thirty-to-forty-five minutes. The episodes are longer to not only split up the serial perhaps in timeline, in this case. Showing different parts of the story almost like the chapters of a book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWtnJjn6ng0 This Serial operates around true events, and events in history. Because of this, technically people should know how it would go - though, the point of a serial like this is to give people an alternative view, a more personal view into a historical figure, or a point in time, rather than just.. reading a newspaper from the time, or the opinions of outsiders. Single A single drama is a story that is written out to play in its completion in one sitting - be it an hour, or thereabouts. Often Single-Single camera dramas operate around real life, or real events, telling true stories that are ‘appropriate’ for their time of broadcast, for television. One example of a single drama would be Cyberbully (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4135218/) which actually centers around security issues that a lot of young people don’t necessarily take to heart - security issues that every young person has been warned about, and yet there are still some people dealing with the repercussions of not heeding that advice.

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evaluations...

first. the script. the way the script was written went well. it was easy enough to find suitable information to play ideas together. there is enough in the script to hint at information, and the ideas i wanted to get across, and give watchers a hint of things for them to look into, gibing rise to an active viewership thew dialogue helps in this, by never having full explanations to anything.

the film this was a lot more difficult. due to outside forces beyond control, the filming wasn’t able to be finished. A change made to redoing this project would be be starting things a lot sooner, to give more time to contingencies to come into play. also, looking for understudies for actors, because there were a lot of problems with actors, having previous engagements, and ‘forgetting’ to turn upto scheduled filming sessions. difficulties also lay in the group i was with, due to illness i had to take a majority of the editing, and with me not having any input into the music, i had very little idea of where to put the tracks into the edit, and so they havent been included, either. doing that different next time around, then there would be a lot more communications between team members.

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when it comes to Single Camera Dramas, there are many ways to create them, and there are a very many ways in which they vary and differ from each other, while still falling under the single camera drama umbrella.

for example, single camera dramas can be split into various different formats. Series are those in which longer running shows with recurring characters have different story lines. A great example of a series would be Doctor Who. Doctor Who follows the adventures of a time lord, getting into various and amazing hijinks, and mysteries that span the cosmos, or affects a small group of people out the way of anyone else. a serial on the other hand deals with something a little more different. This is a lot more like Black Mirror, or maybe even something like Goosebumps. a serial is a connected group of stories in name, and feel, rathger than a character or story. Black Mirror is a show full of ‘what if’s?’ with an aspect of our advanced technological society pushed to a zenith, and looking at what would happen. Goosebumps were/are a set of scary tales for kids, all following a life is normal/odd thing occurs/odd things turns terrifying/???/life returns to normal(or does it?) A single Drama again, is something different. The Miniseries by Syfy, Alice is a good example. its a single one off story. it does what it came to do, and does it well. and then its over. they’re a lot more film-like, doing the entire story start to finish.

a drama can lie in many different genres. To class a show as a drama, it has to have a real world person playing a character. we can then further subclassify a show. a period/costume drama is one set in various eras of the past, like regency stories, or victorian/edwardian/elizabethen/etc etc. Sci fi dramas are set in space, or futuristic societies. crime dramas, or trucrime dramas focus on crime, and the solving of it, think the bill, or NCIS. Soap operas can be included, and they generally have a real world setting, but very overly bad luck for any characters within.

(heres a link to narrative structures, that I have talked about previously. )

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