Single Camera Production

Single Camera Production is when you only have a single camera, things that use single camera production are usually on a low budget such as; music videos, sitcoms, prime time dramas and commercial advertisements.

Advantages of Single Camera Production

• You only have to carry around one camera and you don't need to bother about multiple cameras
• Cheaper to use a single camera rather than having multiple cameras 
• More flexibility as it is easier to gather all the shots together because your only using one camera 
• Easier to set up/Take down 
• You can rent cameras from companies instead of buying one 

Disadvantages of Single Camera Production

• You have to move the camera and keep setting it back up every time you film a different scene
•  If the camera is damaged/broken all of your work might be lost as you didn't film it on any other cameras 
• Too time consuming as you have to keep moving the camera around 
• Can be hard to reproduce scenes which would be easier to overcome if using multiple cameras 

Features of Single Camera Production

Single camera productions can easily be linear as well as non-linear as the scenes are normally filmed in sections rather than flowing which is what multi camera productions do.

How I would of used single camera production in my animation
I would of used single camera production at the start of my animation but I could not find the right background that was relevant for my animation.