180degree Rule

The 180 Rule
Jack Casey

You What?
Basic guidline of filmmaking
Two characters or element should have the same right/left relationship to each other.
The reverse angle:
A shot from the opposite side. After the camera moving.
Crossing the line:
Camera passing over the axis connecting the two subjects

Explaination
Camera cuts from green to red arc.
characters switch place on the screen

This can be very confusing for the viewer.
When two people face each other they hould always still face that same side of the screen.
Example;
Soldier 1
Soldier 2

Soldier 1
Soldier 2
Facing the left
This is the correct way, as they are looking opposite ways in each shot.

Soldier 1
Soldier 2
Facing the left
This is the incorrect way, as they are looking the same ways in each shot. This confuses the viewer, as you cannot tell that they are having a conversation.

Another example.

Reverse shot

180degree Rule

by jackcasey92 on Oct 12, 2009

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