Set lighting is just one part of everything that goes into a TV show. Watch our video to see the entire process from start to finish: bit.ly/2Ji191l

@genessab

6 жыл бұрын

Vox My friend is a lighting major, he’s so obsessed with sitcom lighting, he creates these models to light them and tinkers endlessly

@NoThrottle

6 жыл бұрын

I find it weird that the pinned post has lesser likes than the other top comments

@josheydubs

6 жыл бұрын

Vox the one thing these sitcoms have in common is how insufferably white these sitcoms are.

@audreymuzingo933

6 жыл бұрын

I was hoping you would address the example shown in 30 Rock, when they did their 2 live episodes. Right in the very first scene, the very first line was Jack saying, "Lemon is it just me, or does everything look....weird? It's like we're in a Mexican soap opera." And it DID look totally different. So which camera style was used for which kind of 30Rock episode?

@adamhellerud2743

6 жыл бұрын

Din't Desi suggest the three camera set up, that is what was always said in documentaries and interviews, or did he just take credit like Thomas Edison?

Vox makes videos about things I didn't even know I was curious about

@dirtypure2023

6 жыл бұрын

Most common Vox comment appears. *like track plays*

@zain4019

5 жыл бұрын

dirty pure This comment deserves a million likes

@janalednicka2663

5 жыл бұрын

WC

@nvafletcher2622

5 жыл бұрын

I want to give a like but right now your likes are perfect

@richiy11

4 жыл бұрын

Contemporaries Club Exactlyyyyyyyyyyyy

All germans who were geniuses had to have a messy hair.

@jmchez

6 жыл бұрын

Most of the great physicist like Planck or Heisenberg were not Jewish. There is that one picture of a young Planck with messy hair, though.

@huzi37709

6 жыл бұрын

MR SLAV I wish I was a genius

@MRSLAV

6 жыл бұрын

Huzufu, then take your arm and start rubbing your hair.

@kyrgyzjeff4550

6 жыл бұрын

MR SLAV Is one of them a mad scientist?

@correctionguy7632

6 жыл бұрын

Albert Einstein was a plagiarist

BIG BANE THEORY. "you merely adopted the laugh track.. I was born in it.. Molded by it."

@fysmhmd7029

6 жыл бұрын

woww

@loopdog8710

6 жыл бұрын

This comment really kills me

@mikejohnstonbob935

6 жыл бұрын

You're a big bane.

@FraserSouris

6 жыл бұрын

"when you have heard the track, then you have my permission to laugh"

@TheRguru1

6 жыл бұрын

To alot of people, sitcoms have become the bane of their existence...

*laugh track of dead people intensifies*

@navleenk.kharoud5233

6 жыл бұрын

someone explain this to me please

@glebsokolov8016

6 жыл бұрын

navleen kharoud These recordings are very old, most people laughing are already dead. It was recorded in early 20th century.

@FloppyDisk893

6 жыл бұрын

Most laugh tracks were made in the early 19's, so most people that got their laughs recorded are now extremely old, or dead

@navleenk.kharoud5233

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Apostate_ofmind

6 жыл бұрын

jesus christ i almost forgot about that....

Sitcom: makes an unfunny joke Laugh Track: *HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHH*

@jeeveso

6 жыл бұрын

Sums up Big Bang Theory there

@TommoCarroll

6 жыл бұрын

Pretty much the formula of a lot of them yep!

@TommoCarroll

6 жыл бұрын

OneTuber...isn't that what sitcoms are for?

@JanetStarChild

6 жыл бұрын

Sitcoms seldom used laugh tracks. There was almost always a live audience, except for rare cases.

@fenhen

6 жыл бұрын

Honey... where are my paaaants!?

I'm so upset that the "What's the Point" spin-off from "Vox" never got renewed beyond the second season. They were just getting into their own, with the "Carlos' does a spreadsheet" plot line really showing how he could act against type and bring depth to the character.

@annasilver4264

6 жыл бұрын

Which videos were these?

@terrillmaxwell3862

6 жыл бұрын

Emmy Award winning screenwriting.

@Robert08010

6 жыл бұрын

What wrecked it was when Staples came in as a sponsor and demanded they tone down all the sexual tension. Then some producer clicked a button and said, "There! That was easy!".

Video discusses the cinematography of Karl Freund, the three-camera setup, and the lighting, blocking, costume and makeup choices that went into making it possible to shoot this way. The comments are 90% about laugh tracks, which the video only mentions in passing.

@TheStoenk

6 жыл бұрын

People like to complain about laugh tracks. I guess it's that they feel patronised by it like they're being told when to laugh or something

@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat

6 жыл бұрын

That is a thing you can say that would be true

@ackeejag

6 жыл бұрын

Bob Tipping partially that and partially that it is a social tool used to minimize the need for good writing. Why hire talented comedians that can tell funny contractual jokes when I can cut corners a play a pre recorded laugh. [Queue laughter]

@denisenova7494

6 жыл бұрын

laugh tracks are evil.

@NewEnglandViews

5 жыл бұрын

FlowersInHisHair after reading your comment... imagined the laugh track in my mind.

The most mindblowing thing this video taught me was that it used to be 'Hollywoodland'

@Droucko

6 жыл бұрын

Jonas Hamill Right? I mean ...wanna know why that changed now !

@purplelucrezia

6 жыл бұрын

gizmodo.com/the-hollywood-sign-originally-read-hollywoodland-1585421650

@lunayoshi

5 жыл бұрын

@Captain "Winkle": Huh. Urban legend has it that an earthquake knocked the "WOOD" part down and they were too (something) to put it back. That's Californians for you.

@milesm.69

5 жыл бұрын

It also used to be lit up at night I'm pretty sure.

@polymetric2614

5 жыл бұрын

@@lunayoshi so then in urban legend it's called HOLLYLAND?

You can really see the difference in sitcom lighting in the show "scrubs." They have one episode where the show is done sitcom style and it's actually jarring at first because the lighting, costuming, and dialogue is so different from how the show was formatted.

@audreymuzingo933

6 жыл бұрын

Same on 30 Rock (2 live episodes).

@marianniezayas1531

6 жыл бұрын

Audrey Muzingo True! Another very funny show.

@meredithkav

5 жыл бұрын

That is exactly what came to mind when I saw this video in my feed!

Anyone ever thought how terrifying most sitcom characters would be without laughter tracks? With no one laughing at their jokes...just...silence Probably pretty terrifying

@escapefromtibet2530

6 жыл бұрын

Aspect Science There's actually a Friends Clip where exactly this happens

@TommoCarroll

6 жыл бұрын

Yes haha! Watched it the other day - the Ross sandwich episode right? Pretty terrifying really haha

@cinedojo8252

6 жыл бұрын

That is a brilliant video haha!

@TommoCarroll

6 жыл бұрын

Yes haha! What moment would be the most weird that you can think of in a sitcom without laughter? There's got to be some great moments

@TommoCarroll

6 жыл бұрын

Haha oh yeah he would look like a sociopath in hiding without a laughter track

You should do an episode on the wierd soft golden light in soap operas. Soaps have a very distinctive look as well.

@JeffLocke1

6 жыл бұрын

The difference is not necessarily the light. It's also the lenses the camera uses and the frames per second they shoot at. They shoot at about 60fps, which makes a TV show or movie look hyper realistic. This can be seen in some British shows of the last three decades, Canadian TV, and most of the Telenovelas. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was shot in 60fps, and if you can set your TV to match, it looks so real you can actually see which plants and rocks are set pieces.

@Selektionsfaktor

6 жыл бұрын

Jeff Locke You mean the Hobbit trilogy, it was shot in 48 fps.

@LoveAndSnapple

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a good point.

I thought this was gonna be about why basically every sitcom takes place indoors and on sets of living rooms. I remember as a kid getting feeling depressed and wierded out watching so many sitcoms where they never showed characters go outside. One of the reasons why Seinfeld was such a *breath of fresh air*

This explains why as a kid, I thought movies looked like they were "inside the TV" more than some TV shows.

@grayw5485

Жыл бұрын

Thats really interesting

While I was still studying visual arts, I got invited on the set of a sitcom for one shooting day. I was very interested in cinematography and was so much looking forward to learn lighting techniques, camera movements, lensing... The director of the episode arrived, introduced himself to the crew and actors (which made me very confused already...didn't he rehearsed everything beforehand?), all kinds of lights were hanging from above the set, leaving not a single spot of shadow. I waited for the DoP to prepare the first shot, and tried to understand what camera was the main one of the many placed everywhere. Two actors went on the set pretty much randomly, without marks of any kind. I was thinking, ok, now the director will go through the scene on the page and explain everyone what he has in mind...and he goes: "....aaand action!", everyone did their thing, without any preparation. A couple of minutes later: "cut, perfect, next scene". As I was still trying to grasp what kind of shot that was. Basically in the time I would have shot one wide and one closeup, they had already finished an episode. Crazy.

My mind is blown that Metropolis, Dracula and I Love Lucy were all shot by the same guy xD

Vox, the first workplace sitcom where people actually work. LOL. :D

the cinematographer who did metropolis was literally the LAST person artistically who I would have thought went to television to invent the modern standard sitcom schtick

That scene with erkell was S U R R E A L

@AlexYorim

6 жыл бұрын

It's uncomfortable to me...

@scj6693

6 жыл бұрын

Salokin urkel.

@ethanbird9266

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah who ever did the editing for that part 👍

@Robert08010

6 жыл бұрын

Salokin Yes BUT... Did he do that?!?!?!

@riki4291

6 жыл бұрын

who's erkell ?

That TV is dangerously close to falling off that round table 😧

when I was a kid my mom watched soap operas all the time and the main thing I noticed about them is how dimly lit they all were. I even asked her once why they were standing around talking in dark rooms all the time and she didn't know what I was talking about

Next video topic: The canning of laughs (what started the laugh track)

@CoryMck

6 жыл бұрын

Two thousand Hertz podcast and 99% invisible did an episode on that, so box might do one soon.

@MrTedjamable

6 жыл бұрын

I was just going to recommend 99% invisible's podcast on the laugh track too - definitely recommend!

@cheesecakelasagna

6 жыл бұрын

imma check them out, thanks guys!

@jess_bounce

6 жыл бұрын

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugh_track The “U.S. history” section of this is fascinating

@user-mb9nm7bq5e

5 жыл бұрын

CheesecakeLasagna nah let's talk about our boy Wilhelm

Big Bane Theory?

@CommieG

6 жыл бұрын

For You

@technologywontsaveus

6 жыл бұрын

Listen carefully and you will hear that Phil Edwars says "Big Bane Theory". Click at 5:44 and listen.

@Intazma

6 жыл бұрын

Might be copyrighted? They don't want the yellow dollar!

@caffeinatednation8885

6 жыл бұрын

👍

@dlarremore

6 жыл бұрын

no one watched my show until i put on the mask

please make a second episode of the vox sitcom! I'm already a HUGE fan

I like the change from your usual style in this video! It's pretty refreshing and imo just better.

so freaking amazing. i hope you guys love your job, because we love what you do

0:41 yes Karl Freund you did do that

@KaizerMan

5 жыл бұрын

That guy has one of the most annoying voices i've ever heard. I'd fucc him up if i saw him *on road*

I really love topics like this. Exploring something I never noticed but always paid attention too at the same time.

Gotta love your video editing Vox. Keep up the good work!

I have to admit...those sitcoms are pretty lit.

@simtekgroup3080

5 жыл бұрын

"awfully overlit but perfect for shooting 175 episodes a day" you mean?

Freund seing what sitcomes have become: "Did I do that?".

I always wondered why sitcoms and soap operas looked so different! I kept pointing it out to my friends/family but they had no clue what I was talking about. Thank you for explaining this!

These videos are so well produced. Nice work, Vox.

As someone who works on film sets, I can say the tools have changed, but most of the logistics have stayed the same.

Is he saying big bane theory? What a big guy.

@josearcadio847

5 жыл бұрын

For you

Again a beautiful video Vox!

I was hoping you would address the example shown in 30 Rock, when they did their 2 live episodes. Right in the very first scene, the very first line was Jack saying, "Lemon is it just me, or does everything look....weird? It's like we're in a Mexican soap opera." And it DID look totally different. So which camera style was used for which kind of 30Rock episode?

Great content as usual, Vox! Phil did a great job.

Keep these videos coming!

I love that Vox even covers topics like this

*Laugh track plays in the distance*

@DankMatter

6 жыл бұрын

(Insert unfunny why are you everywhere and why do you use likebots reply here)

@makonyr

6 жыл бұрын

Story of your life probably.

@jojjn8272

6 жыл бұрын

"wOw yOuRe eVErYwHeRe" is that how everyone responds to you

@NoThrottle

6 жыл бұрын

lmao

@NoThrottle

6 жыл бұрын

Im waiting for the “ranty” people now.

I've honestly wanted to know this for decades! I noticed even as a child in the 80's that soap operas don't look like sitcoms, but more resemble news casts. I now know that it's not really a different type of camera, but the set's lighting as recorded by the camera that gave it a particular feel. Seriously. Thank you! Mystery solved! [*sigh of relief*]

@thehumancrayon3264

6 жыл бұрын

There is a camera difference too. Soap operas were filmed using cheaper film (I'm guessing they're shooting digitally now). They also film at a higher frame rate, eliminating blur. On top of that, there is a post-production difference in that series (then sometimes, now always) use colour grading (usually giving everything a warm tint, like in Friends), where soaps do not.

@Lauren_C

4 жыл бұрын

@@thehumancrayon3264 Running the higher frame rate also impacts exposure, more than a full stop. Doubling the illumination was probably not terribly realistic, so going for a moodier lighting scheme was probably more doable.

Great video! quite fascinating learning about the cinematography involved in a sitcom format that inherently doesn't feel that cinematic.

Great video once again! 💛

i cannot stand certain shows just because of the laughing tracks

@breakinggreens

6 жыл бұрын

I think it works for sketch shows like Mitchell and Webb look. Less so for Big Bang Theory

@markasscop

6 жыл бұрын

dan schneider's shows

@mattk.3645

6 жыл бұрын

Laugh tracks can ruin a show. If the live audience isn't laughing, then the joke just isn't funny.

@philcooper2408

5 жыл бұрын

MASH had no laugh track when it was originally broadcast on the BBC way back . It was a rich character piece with natural feeling humour. I have seen the US versions recently and they are unwatchable in comparison, the laugh track feels way out of place. I think loads of shows would be better without live audiences, depends on the show though.

@FzHnn

4 жыл бұрын

A laugh track is like an "amen" of a preach lol

Brilliant! I never knew the Metropolis guy had such an interesting career.

4:51 that TV is dangerously on the edge of the table

I enjoy this series keep them coming

Who else loves Brooklyn 99

@TommoCarroll

6 жыл бұрын

Oh yes! So glad that it has been saved! Favourite moment?

@milfsfilms

6 жыл бұрын

sue ali yaaas and no laugh track!

@derekchan7797

6 жыл бұрын

meee

@sakshambhagat9378

6 жыл бұрын

Best thing ever!

@JD-od6jh

6 жыл бұрын

Nope just a wack rip off of Psych.

Everyone in new York has a bike hanging on their wall.

@robinchesterfield42

6 жыл бұрын

Obviously. Best place to keep it. :P

@troyarrington5492

6 жыл бұрын

That’s what happens when you live in a $1500 closet

@JenJHayden

6 жыл бұрын

troy arrington for $1,500 .... you'd get a lovely parking space.

@troyarrington5492

6 жыл бұрын

J. Jo awww hell no😂 and I thought Chicago is bad

@JenJHayden

6 жыл бұрын

troy arrington 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Amazing video. Thank you.

Thank you I learned so much. Who would have guessed that the DP of I love Lucy and Metropolis were one and the same person? Just mind-blowing!

The Vox sit-com - I think you're onto something! 4:35

Where is Chandler? I feel catfished

@draevonmay7704

5 жыл бұрын

Mayur What does that mean? Catfishing is when someone creates fake identities on social media platforms (like an old man making the profile of a hot twenty something on a dating app).

very nice video, I learnt so much! thanks

Seriously the best thing to come out of Vox are video essays by Phil Edwards.

Once again with television, I Love Lucy was both the originator and Gold Standard of sitcoms

New Vox video? *DROP EVERYTHING*

@rajikayode9385

6 жыл бұрын

Very true.

@TommoCarroll

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you agree! Any other channels you do that for?

@greghuffman3061

6 жыл бұрын

PornHub

@unclesam530

6 жыл бұрын

+Aspect Science "Ask your homegirl right now, "Look, you had a shot at Ye?, You DROP EVERYTHING"

@BernardoPatino

6 жыл бұрын

I AM DOOM NOT GROOT wut

I remember noticing as a kid, the Mary Tyler Moore Show and other MTM shows began a somewhat more sophisticated lighting scheme, where an effort was made to motivate more light from windows and table lamps, even visible ceilings on some occasions. They also simulated more realistic weather FX and time of day than most 3 camera sitcoms.

Wow, that's so interesting. Such a great video!

Not just sitcoms, it's still apparent on talk shows, news shows, even our gaming livestreams

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

3 жыл бұрын

Haven't watched TV in years, unless it's on DVD. Very rarely on DVR, like the Puppy Bowl. I don't do commercials.

Don't do the weird thumbnail thing. That's too low for vox

@nooriman5944

4 жыл бұрын

Alexander L Agreed, but in this case, it’s Chandler’s joke, so I like it.

Love this video, great way to put away interesting content.

You did an amazing job ! !!

The first hint of a simulation. keep asking questions.

My goodness, let's either get a bigger table for the TV or nudge that bad boy to the left an inch or so. It's teetering.

Brilliant video!

so *that's* why the audio always sounded better on lucy than gilligan's island!

What people need to understand is, he didn't pull all the 'standards' out of his ass. They emerged naturally as a means to 'simplify' the production of consistent cinematography. By marking the position of the various camera angles, and marking the points for the actors to deliver their lines, it MASSIVELY sped up the production of the sitcom while conserving consistency. It allowed people to autopilot without a lot of thought. It is totally about working smarter, not harder. There is no 'deep genius' here. Most of these tricks were pulled out of the 'theater' play book, since filming in front of a live audience is very much theater. The difference is, he had to incorporate that also into the camera work, but otherwise, it is the same. The lighting was designed purely to make as many shots as possible usable, to minimize reshoots, which leads to notorious fake laughter from live audiences.

@isaiahbruckhaus

6 жыл бұрын

Richard Smith True yes but in early cinema there was also period of 10-15 years literally just frontal filming theater performances. Mostly he just created a template for sitcoms out of existing conventions. However as only briefly noted in here, he was essentially the first to abandon the tripod as integral part of the camera and just have it placed/moved in the set.

@rich1051414

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it was stated as if he had some grand vision, but in reality, he was simply trying to make the whole process easier(possible even). Not taking anything away from his efforts, but just to put into perspective how something like this does not require a superhuman to devise, and is really within the reach of anyone who doesn't take 'impossible' as a matter of fact. A sitcom with a new 30 minute episode every week is not easy to pull off, so his efforts were more to do with making consistent quality weekly production actually possible than it was some divine art inspiration as some people like to presume.

@isaiahbruckhaus

6 жыл бұрын

very true… though i feel the infotainment quality of Vox is often misleading in that way. Either you already know half of whats coming or you just have to assume that whatever the topic it probably deserves double the time to get a somewhat complete overview.

Wonk, wonk, waaaaaaaaaaa. * looks into camera with an 'oopsie!' grin *

love vox for always educating me about literally everything and anything

Fascinating... thank you.

HIMYM?

My favorite sitcoms are That’s 70’s Show and The Big Bang Theory. Oh and Boy Meets World. Can’t forget that.

@andybaldman

2 жыл бұрын

You are a boring person.

Vox and its related channels have the best editors on KZread, period!

Cracking video, well done

From metropolis to a sitcom .....

So what you're basically saying is, that a german invented comedy

@jibyjoseph1204

6 жыл бұрын

MickeyKnox i get that reference... or the ironic relation between those two ... juxtaposition... oxymoron

@isaiahbruckhaus

6 жыл бұрын

MickeyKnox The setup 😉

@vickyabramowitz4919

6 жыл бұрын

Germans are such jolly people.

@YellowKurt

6 жыл бұрын

They invented everything

@alex73217

6 жыл бұрын

95% of German movies are Comedy :D we use English action and drama and add a bunch of comedy movies on top. And quite a lot are actually really awesome. If it's one Genre that Germans are amazing at it's comedy (but nobody would suspect us xD)

Fritz Lang and his wife, Thea von Harbou, made Metropolis. Karl was the genius in charge of many special effect and photographie. His hard work and innovative mind was a huge part of it.

Really great video !!!!!!

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is the best American sitcom to exist. So different yet so absolutely hilarious

@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat

6 жыл бұрын

Obelisk i'd say its more of an anti-sitcom

@fiatlux8828

6 жыл бұрын

The fact that it hasn't won many awards is a crime.

@dreality_motion_pics

5 жыл бұрын

Porte Richmond; season one [Amazon Prime]: www.amazon.com/dp/B07HYJT2S3/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1538543687&sr=8-2&keywords=porte+richmond

This is so true, I love watching friends

This was fantastic!

I literally could watch these videos all day

I really wish this video didn't put dark scan lines over the clips of shows they're using to discuss lighting and visuals.

@sac3528

5 жыл бұрын

And play terrible muzak over bits of audio they want you to listen to.

*uses lights and 3 cameras. Truly an inspirational genius beyond his time who changed the course of human history.

awesome video!!

I was so excited when i heard Phil's Voice he's one of my favorite video producers at Vox!

hey! I wanna see more vids about the royal family! just kidding of course. This is exactly the content I subscribed for

Martin > Friends

@maleah9819

6 жыл бұрын

I don’t see a lie

@troyarrington5492

6 жыл бұрын

Half of the fools on Vox, probably don’t even what Martin is😑 Youre1000% correct though

Great video! I studied metropolis in college and I had no idea that it would be mentioned here

Vox has amazing capacity to make really good art videos .

Why is it that so many new inventions/ideas come from Germans?

@MickeyKnox

6 жыл бұрын

Because we are smart :)

@batheandrelaxinmyshit6344

6 жыл бұрын

3.14159265358 *lesbians not Germans

@Droucko

6 жыл бұрын

Because we are constantly working working working ^^ ;)

@isaiahbruckhaus

6 жыл бұрын

3.14159265358 A rather big population. And something eerily prevalent about problem solving in their culture. Somewhere I heard the language tends to make you think in abstract terms, not sure what to think about that.

@Mksterk1998

6 жыл бұрын

Droucko I really admire the German work ethic. I hope to live and work in your beautiful country some day. Greetings from your neighbor, the Netherlands!

Big _Bane_ Theory

Very good - I learnt a lot.

These Vox videos are so addictive

Do people still watch sitcoms anymore?

@vanessawei7144

6 жыл бұрын

RŮDE yes

@niarevery2693

6 жыл бұрын

RŮDE boi your deserve more views

@scoopityboop

6 жыл бұрын

The Good Place is a sitcom and it is my JAM!

@johnvictorroderos8842

6 жыл бұрын

YASS

@tomasroque3338

6 жыл бұрын

RŮDE TBBT is the most viewed show on TV right now

i didn't knew that HOLLYWOOD was used to be HOLLYWOODLAND

@SomeDudeQC

5 жыл бұрын

bharat sihag well know you knew!

excellent little film studies piece for the layman.. great video.

Incredibly powerful acting by the Vox team.... I sense an Emmy on the horizon!