ABSTRACT
The technique of shooting with a single camera is often called film-style shooting, because traditionally motion pictures are filmed with one camera that takes shots one by one from all the various angles employed in multiple-camera shoots. When the shooting is done for news, it is usually called electronic news gathering (ENG). A more generic term is electronic field production (EFP), because the shooting takes place in the field rather than in a studio. Field production, like studio-based work, requires both discipline and technique. It involves both the development of a professional attitude and knowledge of equipment and aesthetics. Preparing a budget for field production work is very similar to budgeting for studio productions, in that budgets include above-the-line and below-the-line categories. Many of the options and operations of editing are the same for multi-camera and field production. Productions undertaken from large remote trucks bear resemblance to both field production and studio production.
