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- Title
Statistical Analysis of Television Style: What Can Numbers Tell Us about TV Editing?
- Authors
BUTLER, JEREMY
- Abstract
This article assays the value of splicing together humanities-based analysis of television style with digitally generated statistical data. The editing style of the situation comedy Happy Days (1974-1984) provides an intriguing test case for the utility of such analyses, as the show made a radical shift in its mode of production after its second season--switching from single camera to multiple camera (with a studio audience). Using data collected on Shot Logger (http://www.shotlogger.org), this article measures the cutting rates correlated with each mode of production and finds a statistically significant difference between the two. Additionally, the article examines the general acceleration of cutting rates on American television since 1951 and comes to a perhaps surprising conclusion about the impact of individual editors on television style.
- Subjects
TELEVISION film editing; HAPPY Days (TV program); TELEVISION history; TELEVISION editors; MULTIPLE-camera filming; QUANTITATIVE research; MAHAKIAN, Carl
- Publication
Cinema Journal, 2014, Vol 54, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
0009-7101
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2014.0066