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Shot Craft
ASC member Karl Freund was an early multi-camera
innovator on the classic sitcom I Love Lucy.
between productions with the
camera team. That way we keep
working five days a week as well. "
Says Baum, " For each episode,
on Monday they usually have any
new sets built, and the actors haven't
even seen them yet. We have a
general idea of where the actors will
be moving and sitting, but otherwise
we have to pre-rig and sort of
guess where everyone will be as we
'rough in' the lighting. "
Lee adds, " You end up trying to
figure out where everyone will be
and then build in multiple options
- while trying to keep actors away
from the walls. " With a laugh, she
adds, " We even conspire with the
production designer to put furniture
against the walls! Then we basically
build in pathways where the actors
can move and walk. "
Specs and Insights
Many of today's multi-cam shows
are shooting with the Sony
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PMW-F55. In terms of lenses, Baum
favors using the Panavision 11:1
24-275mm T2.8 Primo zooms on all
his cameras. Lee uses the 11:1 on
her wing cameras, but prefers the
Fujifilm Premier ZK Cabrio 19-90mm
T2.9 on her two center cameras.
" Unless we're shooting for Netflix
or Sony, which both want 4K, most
shows are still shooting 1080p and
in Rec 709, " notes Lee. " We want to
make sure the live audience watching
the monitors isn't looking at a
log picture. Some shows do shoot
in log and put a show LUT on the
audience monitors.
" Multi-camera cinematography is
an underappreciated art form, " she
says. " Getting four camera angles
to look good simultaneously takes
a tremendous amount of effort, and
you're worrying about making it
artful and a pleasurable experience
for the audience. It's a challenge to
take care of so many things and yet
try to make it an interesting picture
" Sometimes you're getting new pages by the
hour, so you really have to be on your toes. "
that serves the story. "
Assessing the continued evolution
of his world, Baum notes wryly,
" Multi-camera shows want to look
more like single-camera shows,
and single-camera shows want to
incorporate more cameras to save
time. A number of single-camera
cinematographers have come to my
sets to learn how to handle three
and four cameras on their productions.
We're also working with more
single-camera directors who come
to multi-camera projects with their
own aesthetic. It's an ever-changing
world of challenges, and I'm very
interested to see how it evolves! "
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