Each set will have a wall missing for the camera and audience to see. There might also be other sets where the actors go to occasionally like the store on the Big Bang Theory.
These will be placed at the very far end of all the other sets, because they are not used very often. There may also be space for an extra set, again at the end of the others, which can be dressed as necessary to meet the requirements of a particular episode. The sets are lined up one after another, so the entire group of sets is quite long so it looks like a train with a bunch of open boxcars.
That means you get the best view when they are taping on the set right in front of you, or on either side, but several sets away right or left, not so good. So they show what one of the camera is seeing on the TV monitors which one is controlled by someone in a control booth.
Taping is usually done with three or more pretty large TV cameras in a multi-camera setup. Unlike movies, which typically shoot scenes out of order, sitcoms are shot in chronological order because of the live audience. All the cameras have to be moved back and forth between one room and another, so there is quite a bit of delay between scenes in different sets. The sets not being used are usually kept dark. Each scene may take several takes to get it right, particularly with comedies where the actors may break up laughing.
The hard part then is to get the same reaction from the audience since they have heard the jokes already. If they don't, they may have to "sweeten" the laughter during post-production.
The director or producer may decide to make minor changes to the script -- for example, if a joke got no reaction from the audience.
Or they may change a joke just a little, so it will be "fresh" to the audience for the next take. At one show I was at, there was a scene that couldn't be done live no special effects; I believe it was just a scene outdoors.
It had obviously been taped beforehand. When the outdoor scene came up, they stopped the action on the set, dimmed the lights, and played the scene on the TV monitors above the bleachers.
In this way, they were able to record our reaction laughter to the scene. I imagine the same thing would be done with any scene with special effects. Los Angeles.
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What is the atmosphere like at each? Do we miss anything important when we watch at home? So I embarked on a late-night safari. I headed to Late Night With Seth Meyers , where the guy who warmed up the crowd seemed visibly nervous, as if he would mess up the show by being lame.
This made them seem like a backup wedding combo that is tolerated but not beloved. Meanwhile, the most jazzed the studio audience ever got was when a young woman sitting in front of me spotted Lutz from 30 Rock in the wings. She yelped with glee, and Lutz happily gave us all a big wave.
At The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore, I was seated next to some pleasant Minnesotans who had been waiting outside for a full three hours before the show even began. For their troubles, they got a warm-up comic making some feeble jokes about getting high. Poor Wilmore is still learning the ropes, so you can hardly blame him for botching some segments. But still, the flubs meant that each segment—his monologue, his interviews, and his end-of-show wrap-up—had to be immediately repeated.
What stands out most when you watch the show live is its lack of fluidity. He sat at his desk and stared straight into a camera lens while reading from a teleprompter, delivering gag after gag as I disappointedly realized that we, the sad sacks in his tiny, tiered amphitheater, were serving as nothing more than a fleshy laugh track.
None of these shows had much in the way of set design. Wilmore and Oliver play in small, black boxes inside buildings on desolate Midtown side streets. All three of these dudes did these brief audience meet-and-greets before the tapings began. They stood near the first row of seats and nervously parried a smattering of inquiries, acting deeply guarded, seemingly eager to dispatch with this chore and move on to the part of the show that actually goes on the air.
I suppose a live audience helps the host know which kinds of jokes are generally working.
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