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When to choose a multicamera production approach

When to choose a multicamera production approach

From the course: Multi-Camera Video Production and Post

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When to choose a multicamera production approach

- Before we get into the how of multi-camera, I think it's important that we talk about the why. There's a lot of reasons to actually hold the multi-camera production. Now, Jim, I started with multi-camera productions. I had a background in live news and we always did them with multi-cam, but then as I started moving out into production, it seemed that film style or single camera productions were more popular. You've seen a recent switch lately, haven't you, to multi-camera happening more and more often? - Well, on all levels of production, there's more cameras kicking in to shoots and it's for a lot of reasons that usually have to do with some kind of restraint. These days, budgets can be smaller, time constraints, and then other things like space and schedules. Anything that requires you to get maybe more in a shorter period of time or more with fewer opportunities to get coverage. There's all kinds of compromises and constraints that suggest the use of more than one camera and…

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