Task 1 multi camera study by Alex Clinton

Task 1 - Multi Camera Case Study

Part A

A lot of sports events, music events, stage productions and studio productions tend to be multi camera events because most of these events if not all are live and when something is live you can’t go back and do it again you only get one chance to get the action of what is happening there and then. There are no or very few retakes. Multi camera production get the action from all sides so you as the viewing audience can see the whole 360 degree view of the whole playing field, stage or studio.

 

They also allow for something called ‘editing on the fly’ which is editing on the go where as if it was just a single camera production the editor would have to do lots of work and it would take lots of time this would also mean more costs for the studio. It also allows for many different angles of the same place and from different angles at the same time. They are also used in things like interviews with one camera pointing at the interviewer and one at the person being interviewed and maybe two cameras that are away from the people in line with the lights so that they can get a view of both persons in one camera shot.

Multi camera productions are always used on panels shows mainly because they are in the studio and it falls under studio production and because there are usually celebrities on those shows and they need to show the viewing audience these people to keep them interested so they may have one camera on one person on one side of the panel and another on the other side of the studio pointing at the next celebrity and this would carry on to two other cameras depending on how many cameras the studio has, what kind of panel show it is and how mobile those cameras are.

 

Part B

The live event I have chosen was the football match between England and Brazil which was live on 6^th February 2013 at Wembley.

The first shot that you see once the adverts have finished was of fans in there national colours and then it went to players in the tunnel. At the start of the first half you see the establishing shot of the players on the field (bottom picture on diagram below). When the penalty is to be taken the camera on the crane at the other end of the pitch that camera watches until the penalty is taken then it changes. In addition, when England scores the camera behind the goal is used in the replay to show what fans can see at that end of the pitch. When there was a substitution the mobile camera, which is at the half way line. This shows the fans on the screen and the fans at home what is happening and this would help maintain the viewer’s interest also this gives the viewer a full overview of what’s going on.