Unit 23 assignment 1

A multi camera set up or, multi camera production means there is more than one camera used throughout the production. essentially because it gives a more fluent flow to the program, for example, if football was one fixed camera that panned left to right it wouldn't be near as entertaining to watch, instead we see it from all different angles and coverage, that brings flow and entertainment. The same can be said for talk shows, game shows and the news.

A single camera production means one camera is used, this is more common in films and productions that don't require as much coverage, also things that arent live recorded, soap opera and films are good example. The single camera can easily be moved and adjusted.

These sorts of programs are all single camera:

Coronation street - built in a set studio to replicate real life surroundings

Eastenders - single camera production, filmed in and around a replica street, not a studio but its a replica street built in private grounds

Bear Grills: Born Survivor - Live recordings following one man, using one camera.

Breaking Bad - Uses multiple real life destinations as the sets but once again, single camera.

NCIS - Uses multiple real life destinations as the sets.

The following web links talk about the pros and cons of working in a multi camera set up

http://lisagg2.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/the-pros-and-cons-of-multi-cam/

http://venture2thewest.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/multiple-camera-vs-single-camera-setup.html

http://bartiib.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/multi-camera-case-study.html

Pros: 

• Gives more flow to a production
• Shows more insight to the production by giving us reactions of people on the spot etc
• Modern day live events such as sport wouldnt be entertaining at all if caputred with one camera
• Time Saving
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Cons:

• The aesthetic quality isnt as upto scratch as a single camera production
•  Costly
• Lighting change from different angle thus giving a different picture, most studios have lighting set up though. 

This Program is celebrity juice, one of the biggest pannel shows in britain. This is a multi camera production, this program would NEED to be a multi camera production, if it wasnt it would literally be one camera facing a panel of 6 people and wouldnt move. it would pan left to right, up and down at most. it wouldnt give us the coverage and reactions of the contestants and the audience reactions also.

The program above is the news. This is also a multi camera set up, again its essential that this would need to be multi cam. the news have different presenters for different subjects, i.e Sport, weather and general news etc. The reason this is multi camera is so they can chop and change as quick as possible and once again make the show run more fluently. If it was a single camera we would see the camera man walking over to the weather green screen for example, then back to the news table. Instead we get quick changing commands and a easy running view of whats going on. 

Football is a multi camera production, as are most if not every other sport. If football was a single camera production we would see one camera panning left to right, leaving us bored and probably quite noxious. Instead we get numerous views and aspects of the game from when players pass to when players score and run to the fans etc, we see all that head on thanks the the fact football is presented as a multi camera production.

Mock of the week, presented by Dara O'Brein, another news/panel show that involves the contestants walking around, again, if that wasnt done multi cam we would just get simple pans and possibly the cheeky track here and there. instead we have quick chopping and cutting to peoples reactions and actions. For example, Frankie Boyle could make a joke about Dara, We would get a straight away cut to Daras' face to see his reaction, small things like that can make a program what it is. IF it was single camera the joke would be dead by the time the camera got to Daras' reaction. 

Out of the 4 programs above i feel that the football and mock of the week make the better use of the multi camera set up to show their audience the best possible footage. With football i feel its absolutely 150% necessary, the camera work on football is amazing, showing all the best angles and coverage. Also football is probably the most viewed out of all the programs, However mock of the week also makes good use of its set up. The fact its a comedy show means jokes are thrown around and offences are just flung around at people so reactions are precious to this show. The news have different presenters for different categories of news. The news also uses their cameras in the same style of mock of the week and even celebrity juice, they're all in a studio and need to chop and change from different people for different reactions or in the news' case, stories. Overall id still say football needs the multi cam set up more and uses it more efficiently.