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Uploaded by on Sep 17, 2007

Also known as the Line of Action, the 180 Degree Rule is an important fundamental to communicating the action through careful camera positioning. Jennifer O'Rourke walks us through it. To learn more great video tips and tricks, download our free report "How to Make a Storyboard: Movie Storyboarding Examples" at http://www.videomaker.com/r/559

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  • I learned this by watching Paprika

  • @RRYtbea The anime?

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  • Filming might not be strictly about rules, but some rules come into existence for a reason. A lot of ppl today ignorantly break the rules and their stuff is nigh incomprehensible. If Orson Welles took time to try and understand the 180 degree rule when he started out, then who do you think you are to totally ignore it?

  • @NelsonStJames Exactly, you have to understand the rules before you can know when to break them.

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  • these are all very basic rules. HOWEVER, they are not creative rules to follow. try new things, if it doesn't seem to work, try a different way. no one should follow 'videomaker' too religiously.

  • Fair enough, but surely you can agree that before you break the "rules" you should understand the "rules," so that when you do it, it's a conscious choice and not an accident.... Cheers.

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  • Here's another 180 degree Rule Of Film Making: Periodically swing around 180 degrees and look over your shoulder to see if the people who lent you the money to make your film and who will never see a dime back are approaching you to find out when they'll see their dimes back.

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  • @SenorCajones you're right, but there is a sort of arrogance of ignorance to comes into play when it comes to "artistic endeavors" that you would never see in other professions. People think they can do anything because it's all personal expression. I know people who want to write movies and have never watched any of the classics. I know ppl who want to write and never read books. People want to make movies and haven't watched anything but MTV videos.

  • I think that the sync your audio rule should be observed here. If I can syn some mannequin with an apple's lips, then you can sync up this footage.

  • @NelsonStJames I think that part of the problem is to think of it as a rule. If you don't know what makes sense, you suck and that's all there is to it.

  • @Prim3StaR

    No it would not, if you are looking at the diagram and it violates the rule, rotate the line 90 degrees. So the guy behind the desk is in the upper left of the circle and the other to people are on the upper and lower right of the circle. Make sence?

  • Filming and mediaproduction isn't about rules or the geometric law! It's all about creativity and factors which the movie depends on! So plz, delete this vid. !

  • "As we learned in math class, the circumference of a circle is 360 degrees." This line had me laughing sooo hard! Silly film makers.

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