Benefits & Limitations Of Single Camera Productions

Single Camera productions are very popular, even in some of the largest and most impressive shows like Game Of Thrones, single camera productions use, obviously, only one camera, and this is effective not only for budgetary reasons. They're also effective because other cameras won't accidentally be visible in scenes, therefore allowing more flexibility, it's also easier to gather all the shots together after shooting since they're all on one camera, and not on various different ones. It also allows the director to have more control over a shot, this is because there's only one camera and they can control it much easier than multiple cameras, each with a camera crew.

However, despite all these positive points, there are of course negatives, first of all being that after each shot the camera will have to be moved and then moved after that shot, making the whole process a lot more tedious than if there were multiple cameras, this therefore means the whole process is a lot more time consuming.There's also the threat that if the camera breaks all the footage may potentially be lost, and you'd have to buy/rent another camera.