Mark, first of all let me apologise for the late reply here.
Thank you very much for such a great message, I never thought of using a laptop for the fourth camera.
To answer your question the two families are supposed to be in separate houses also the compere in his own house. They would be using Skype or Teams to connect in a fictional online quiz. So I am going to be simulating that when we film.
We will also have footage of the families and the compere getting ready in their houses so I need this footage to be the best quality but for the images supposedly captured during the quiz I was hoping to get away with lower quality, perhaps shoot on camera phones and connect them to a pc to record the footage.
We have a budget of £1000 to get this made. This is why I am thinking of lower quality cameras for the quiz footage and hiring a nice camera for the ‘behind the scenes’ type of footage.
Thanks again the the great reply Mark my gratitude for the idea of linking cameras to a pc.