Level Up! - Episode 10: Single Cam Versus Multi-Cam Comedy

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Episode 10: Single Cam Versus Multi-cam Comedy
In this episode, Gunnar discusses the difference between single camera and multi-camera comedies. In a nut shell, multicam comedies are shot in front of an audience on a soundstage, and single cam comedies are not. Single cam and multicam comedies are also written and structured differently, so they have different “rhythms.”
Level Up! is a video series by Actors Comedy Studio, the world's only acting school dedicated solely to Acting for Sitcoms and Sitcom Audition Technique. In each episode, ACS founder Gunnar Todd Rohrbacher takes on one important actor topic and tells you everything he can … within 60 seconds, that is!
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[@ur.ummays]

Who’s here because of Georgie and Mandy spin-off

[@ileanabica1760]

Lol me😅😅😂😂😂

[@michaellee8815]

So it’s really nothing to do with how many cameras and more to do with the type of show and how it’s structured?? Well that’s not confusing at all!

[@yewjew11]

Thank you for the quick breakdown! Helped me out

[@iknowyoueightonetwo]

Very insightful! Thank you

[@jeffreyyoungblood7438]

I don't get why they call it CAM... I thought that meant one camera, but you didn't even mention that.

[@swise63]

I wondered the same thing but this article here sort of validates what the guy in this video says and that's it's all about the audience (or lack thereof) and that the cam thing is just a meaningless name:
screencraft.org/2016/06/21/differences-single-camera-multi-camera-tv-pilot-scripts/

[@sammygee7125]

It does mean single camera, but that hardly explains why that makes it different. When there is just one primary camera for each shot, the director is driving the action and it ends up being more film like.

[@sammygee7125]

Thank you!