Monday 8 November 2010

08/11/10- Analysis of single camera production

"friends"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68RS3sgt_Q



Following the task that was set today, I was able to analyze this single camera production thoroughly, highlighting the main points such as genre, style of narrative etc. The opening scene has a clock with a black background, which is noticeably a typical documentary sign from years ago. A part near the end is to make it an obvious documentary is when the boom man is in the shot, trying to get the man on the microphone to document everything he says. After this disappears, a man, dressed formally in a suit, strolls up a street towards the camera. There is now a voice over, which introduces what is going to be explored in this episode. The 'mocumentary' is about children and there imaginary friends, which branches out to a grown man and his 'friend'. The genre of this production is clearly comedy, and the style of narrative is linear, with devises such as flashbacks. it constantly uses portrait shots, especially in the interview. However, there are also shaky camera shots, which in some way brings out the interviewee's anger when accused of having an imaginary wife.
The lighting is natural, as most of the shots are outside in the garden. There is no backing music or track, which does not necessarily need to be there in a documentary. 

In addition, there are both long and short cuts, with bright white lights splitting some cuts and a test screen when something has obviously gone wrong or violent. The close-ups are effective because it shows the emotions in there faces, which brings out the comedy. As I touched upon before, the shaky camera adds to the offense that the interviewee feels, as he asks them to bow in apology. The only thing that I think I would do to improve this production is to add a funny backing track.

1 comment:

  1. Informative read describing the advantages and disadvantages of single camera production. Using a single camera set-up means you will spend less time editing because all the footage is on one camera. So to use multiple is the better one.

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