Multi-camera Aesthetic/proactical Blog

Multi-Camera
Multi-camera videos are videos of events in which there is more than one camera for many different videos, this is create a realist feel to the video for the viewers.The benefits of using multi-camera is that it allows the directer to have more than one angle for the shots, to get the natural reactions of the actors/actress/players as they are doing the scene with cuts allowing for a enhanced reaction , it also takes less time to shot scenes as the camera doesn't need to be moved.The lighting and sound  is better and easier as no one has to move the equipment to the next location. but the disadvantages are that that tit takes much longer to set up the cameras as there is quite alot of cameras to set up. Another disadvantages are that having move cameras with be unquestionably more expensive as not only this but the film crew has to pay for more camera-men to actual film the event, having a lot of cameras also means that there would less places to put them as there would camera in places that other cameras would be also shooting and lastly the filming using multi-camera may leave the directer to use as set instead of real locations, which can cause problem when different crew members or equipment are be seen in in mirrors/windows.

Sporting events
In the sport, tennis, there needs to be multi-camera as there needs to be a long shot to show both players and the tennis court, a camera to show close ups and mid shots of the each player to show their emotions while after either messing up or winning. there is also one to smaller long shot showing their whole body to show the body language of the player.


This clip is from when Andy Murray won an Olympic gold medal while playing Roger Federer in the Olympics back in 2012, in the clip the camera is constantly like at 00:01 to 00:04 it is an establishing shot, this is to the location of the event and to show what the event is, then at 02:25 to 02:44 there was a shot with both players and the chair umpire just before they start and at 05:44 to 06:14 the camera switches between the camera filming a long shot of Andy Murray practicing and a long shot of members of the audience in the stands watching the event, talking and filming the event. This is done constantly to show the audience's reactions to the game, this also can be seen at 00:55:09 just before the second serve, the camera switches to a close up to show Andy's reaction at then back to a long shot of his whole body as he gets ready to continue playing.

Long shot

After starting the match at 09:48 the camera reverts to a long shot to film both players and the chair umpire again so that the viewers at home can watch where tennis ball is.(shot shown on the right hand side.







Concerts

At Glastonbury in 2011, Beyonce preformed a concert, the camera not only films her but it films the audience and the back up singers/dancing and the whole stage in a long shot, the reason for this is to show the viewers the body actions for Beyonce, and the back up dancers/singers and the long shots as an establishing shot at 1:45 to 1:50. The lastly at 10:00 the camera switches between beyonce and the audience to show the audience's involvement,
constraints are that with the limited cameras, everything can't be filmed at once like at 3:40 the camera cuts to fireworks but at the same time Beyonce is singing as well, and since its pretty dark some shots don't come out well like at 7:07 to 7:11, which is a dark long shot that looks like silhouettes of hands, at this concert at one point beyonce talks to the audience 6:00 as if they were friends as she thanks the audience for coming, and later says are you ready to have a good time, the visual style is well the camera cuts are fluid and seem to cut almost every few minutes, and then at 9:40 she uses the 1st person mode of address as she says 'if y'all having a good time say yer.' The viewer's interest is kept by the camera constantly moving and switching between shots and different brightnesses.







Public events

For public events I will be using the queens diamond jubilee's concert which happened back in 2012. The event  had many different shot types, some include a mid shot which can be seen at the beginning (00:00 to 01:27), this is 1st to show who the speaker is and also to show his emotions and also to show the audience in the background, most of them being very patriot with the British flags and British styled glasses and such another reason for having this shot is to make the audience seem larger as they are cramped into a small space at that point, after that the camera does a lot of long shots(like at :), mid shots(at 01:28) and pan outs 1:43 to 1:54), pan to the left and right,(at 13:34 for 2 seconds to the right and 13:47 to 13:53 to the right as well from the back) and again like last time they use shots of the audience watching, cheering and filming the event. The camera crew uses shots like pans to show just how big the event is showing off just how many people are there and mid shots to show the artist's and dancer's actions (Image on the left hand side) and lastly close ups to show the singer's facial expressions.(image on the right hand side)

Close up

Midshot

Magazine shows

The show 'Dateline', a hidden camera crime based magazine show uses quite a bit of different shots, firstly there's 2 shots at 1:33, long shots at 1:50, mid shots at 3:02, close ups at 3:38 and high angle at 3:28 long shots, The 2 shots were to show both people in the shot and their body language, long shots to show a single person's body language, mid shots to show the person's hands and what their doing, close ups to show the facial expressions and the high angle long shot is to recreate a CCTV camera hanging in the corner. The Camera switches between shots to make the video seem interesting and there is 1st person mod of address, there is no communication to the viewers, the camera covers everything well but when the camera is at the high angle CCTV styled shot the facial expressions are hard to see.


Game shows
I have chosen to do a game show called 'King of the nerds,' which was about 11 different people from different and diverse backgrounds competing in different events and last person left wins $100,000 USD (about £59513.20 in GBP) and the title 'King of the nerds,' Since this show is a games show that has a similar idea to big brother the show uses a lot of close ups, mid shots, long shots and 2 shots.The show uses the closeups to showcase the facial expressions for the actors, mid shots to show the body language and 2 shots to add more than one person into the shot.These shots are used frequently like at 8:56 as a mid shot, 4:31 as a close up and 3:59 as a 2 shot. Again the camera switches shots every few seconds to keep the viewer's interest,the camera needs to cover any kind of action that happens during the show which would be filming all the characters equally and allowing different characters to show their true selves. The camera also needs to film anything that happens randomly, that no one had any idea about.








Chat shows

For chat shows i will be using the Oprah Winfrey show and i think there is about 3 camera's being used, a camera for close ups, a camera for pans and long shots and a camera that is for panning be hide Oprah and her guests and seems like its used for audience shots as well, these can be seen at 00:00( close up), 20:36 and 14:06 for a pan/long shots and 08:50 for be hide pan. The genre has to use multi-camera to show off the host and one for anything happening that the 1st camera can't film.
The genre adds the audience in by having the cameras a little off from Oprah Winfrey to create a the idea that the viewers are in the audience watching. The consent switching allows the audience to stay engaged in whats going on.



Talent show
American's got talent, a US remake of the British version, the show also has lots of different shots mainly using mid shots at 3:48, close ups like at 1:25, long shots at 3:58 and 2 shots at 8:45. The mid shots are to show each person's hands are doing, close ups to show facial expressions, long shots to show the person's body expressions and 2 shot to show 2 characters.The shots allow the viewers to see everything they need to see, allowing them to not get distracted by other things that are not needed in the shot. The show The show uses these shots as they are the most used shots, the camera covers everything as theres more than one, since the show has flashing lights and such the viewer's interest is kept. The show seems live but is as live.