the 'moving camera' technique 
 - or 'we go with' or 'mise en scène' 'shot'

TRACKING 'SHOT' TECHNIQUE - like the lengthy 'mise en scène' camera shot

This is an unusual technique.

This is where within the same 'mise en scène', and within the same scene, the location changes during the dialogue - under special conditions.

And it is best explained by the television equivalent - the 'moving camera' (where camera = microphone).

(1) After the first section of the scene dialogue, the atmos is faded up higher and then lowered under the new dialogue. (2) Other characters are now heard in another part of the location (e.g. a large cafeteria). The location has to be large - containing groups of people.

(3) We then move back to the original part of the location, again with the atmos faded up higher and then lower. We then continue the dialogue of the first group of characters.

This is an unusual technique and it is difficult to bring off. That is why it is discouraged on this course!

The technique is really from television.

We are asking the listeners to imagine the microphone as a camera which moves from the first group, goes through the room, and then is with the second group. And then back to the first group again.

This could get confusing and it is not surprising that it is rare in radio drama. It is not 'we go with' - not a moving sound centre - because the two groups are fixed - each at a fixed sound centre.

See Filmic - styles of radio drama directing and post-production which creatively relate to film

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Production issues in detail

atmos and soundscapes	double frame - triple frame	clustering
underscoring music - fighting the dialogue
Music	montage	'Will you turn that music down!' 18-second rule
drop-ins	sound pictures	memorability
number the scenes carefully with a system	voice in the mind = interiorizing	time-space rule or jump cut

 

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