Viewers discuss whether Seinfeld episodes were filmed before a live audience and whether laughs were added in post-production, with conflicting accounts about audience presence.
Were the Seinfeld episodes, or at least the indoor parts of it, shot before a live audience?
There are many laughters but I do not know if they originate from the recording itself or were added afterwards.
If there was an audience, how large was it?
Just a few weeks ago I saw for the first time "The Library" and I am totally impressed with the "library cop" and his long monologue.
Tomas Stockholm
Tomas Duke wrote:
On one of the clip shows there is a musical montage to "Time of your Life" and at one point you see Jerry running onto the stage, hi-fiving Jason and Julia and then running into, you got it, the audience. There's another clip of him standing in the audience, he has a microphone and he's, I assumed, doing some stand-up. I know at TV tapings they often have 'warm-up' guys to get the audience in the mood. I guess Jerry himself sometimes warmed up the audience..?
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Yep.
Well, a little of both. They apparently used real laughter, but moved it around a bit as necessary in post-production. For example, a line might initially get a big laugh, but not on later takes of the same scene; in this case, they's supposedly edit the earlier laughter into the final take they used.
On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 00:42:49 GMT, John Twernbold wrote:
I didn'tr think the show was done with a live audinece at all. In the 60 Minutes interview on TVLand with Jerry last night, they showed backstage clips and it looked like a soundstage, with setup but no place for an audience.
I dunno!
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I don't if there was a live audience for all epidodes. Maybe not for The Betrayal and some others...
Here you'll have an idea of the larger of the audience (you need Quicktime VR to see it): http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/seinfeld/QuickTime.phtml
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I've always wanted to know exactly how it was shot. If it is in front of an audience, then it had to have a big screen to show the outdoor scenes. And if they have to make many takes of a scene, the audience may be not still laughing every time, so then do they had to add laughs on mixing? And how do they managed to keep some kind of continuity for the audience, between all the takes, and the outdoor scenes on the screen?
Is there anyone here who had the chance to be at the recording of a Seinfeld episode? If so, could you describe to us how it was?
Christian
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Tomas Duke wrote in message news:...
I may be worng, but I think the the laugheter was added after (canned. About the "library cop" his name was Bookman and he was really funny.
There are definitely moments when the actors pause and wait for the laugh to finish. Not to mention the applause Kramer's entrances generated.
Also, it's hard to imagine Jerry Seinfeld (of all people) not wanting an audience to react to. How much that audience was "sweetened" is a different question, of course.
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Mark Wilden wrote:
Yep. As an example.... Right before Kramer delivers the line "Well, is that a Titleist?" in The Marine Biologist, its obvious that he is waiting for the applause to die down. Classic line....