task 1

180° RULE

For this cinematographic guideline to work, the rule is that there is a line between the confronting characters, maintaining the same left/right relationship to one another, but if the camera is crossing this line to another angle, the shot then becomes a reversed angle, which sets the fluidity of the scene feel off.

In class we tried to film a scene between our classmates acting out an interview conversation, using all of these angles including the reversed shot, I noticed when editing this the first two shots stayed within the line of the rule, however the third shot threw off this scene, feeling almost like a quick jump to the last scene. This was because shot 4 was filmed outside of the sideline of the rule, throwing off the continuation of this scene.

This was an interesting lesson for me as it made me notice this rule commonly between characters conversing, such as the actor Rick Dalton (acted by Leonardo Dicaprio) forgetting his line in Once upon In Hollywood (directed by Quentin Tarantino), however this scene does not follow this rule exactly, by doing a 90 degree camera turn around the second actor in the second shot outside the line, this gives the conversation a more dynamic scene capture. Although this rule is relevant in film, many film makers experiment around these rules as well.