180 Degree Rule

The 180 degree rule is used when filming a scene with two characters opposite each other. To follow the 180 degree rule the camera must stay the same side of the imaginary axis (shown in the picture below) meaning that the character on the left stays on the left and the character on the right stays on the right. This is done to avoid confusing the audience when the character on the left suddenly appears on the right and vice versa. Sometimes the 180 degree rule is deliberately broken in what is described as a reverse shot, when the camera moves to the other side of the imaginary axis.

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180 Degree Axis rule and coverage.

The 180 Degree Rule is an important aspect of the film grammar. The Director's template has a tool for drawing in the 180 degree axis and it is worthwhile to get in the habit of drawing it in.

Crossing the 180 degree axis can be very confusing since the directions established for the viewer is changed. An example of this would be like watching a football game with the runner going to the right and all of a sudden we cut to him running to the left. It would make the viewer wonder if he was running the wrong way or not.

Another aspect of the 180 degree axis is that the closer to the axis the camera is, the more the viewer's point of view resembles the characters, and thus he feels WITH the character. This encourages the important identification with the characters which viewers should feel.

Proper coverage close to the 180 Degree axis is this from THE MALTESE FALCON

same scene but with the Bogart shots flipped. Notice how confusing this can be:

Notice how close to the axis these shots are. An example crossing the axis is seen in this 

Both characters are looking from Left to Right and seem to be looking off somewhere else.

Instead of standard "Coverage" showing the inter-relationship of characters, another method of SHOT/REVERSE/SHOT can be utilized where the character's Point of View is seen. Afred Hitchcock used this method extremely effectively to create a connection with the character. Basically the format is:

• 1) Show the character looking.
• 2) Show what the character is looking at and;
• 3) Show the character's reaction to what he is seeing.

This is sometimes referred to as the "Kuleshov Effect" since Kuleshov was an early Russian film theorist who suggested that what the character saw would affect what the audience thinks the character is feeling. His example is showing someone looking at some FOOD would suggest he was hungry, or a BABY that he is loving. Thus the director puts emotion into the actor's expressions. Buster Keaton films are full of this, and Keaton could show with a blink an entire range of emotion.
A classic SHOT/REVERSE/SHOT is seen in the Wonderful film SHERLOCK JUNIOR.

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What makes an excellent script

Most filmmakers know that it takes a good script to make a successful movie. While a good script can be destroyed during the filmmaking process, a film can rarely succeed anywhere if the script does not do its job from the start. 

A few things to consider when you write a narrative script, where you are trying to tell a story with a beginning a middle and an end, can truly make a difference to how well your end product tells the story you have set out to tell. 



Also being able to catch the audience's attention is what makes a movie effective, and the only way to catch the audience's attention is have an effective script. 

Audience

How much television do I watch a week?

 On average i spend around 50 hours a week on television.

Do I have cable, satellite or Freeview?

 I have cable

Do I have a television set in my bedroom?

 Yes i do

What are my favourite television programmes?

 My favourite television programmes are Eastenders, Match of The Day, Big Bang Theory, Top Gear and Russell Howard Good News 

My answers build up a profile of a person as a media consumer.

Match Of The Day

Russell Howard Good News

HORROR=scream

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres. Horrors also frequently overlap with the thriller genre.

This is a storyboard of a horror genre in the movie "Scream" 

The movie was introduced in 1996 and stormed the box office with it's twist and turns. 

The opening scene views a blond girl, a perfect stereo-typic character for a horror genre, home alone ready to watch nothing but a scary movie. The phone rings a number of times alerting the girls attention, she is also making so pop corn. The sound of the pop corn rises the audience heartbeat in anticipation. The scene then cuts to an establishing shot of a house in the wilderness. As she picks up the phone and has a conversation with the unknown man, he quotes a sentence that shocks not only the girl but the audience, he says "i want to know who am looking at", this is said because the girl asked he unknown man "why do you want to know my name. As the movie carries on the only way to grab the girls attention is when he present a boy (the girls boyfriend) in a chair bleeding, engaging the girl to co-operate with what the unknown man is saying.  

Thriller Genre= Inception

This is a thriller story board sheet on the movie Inception.

What is a thriller?
 A thriller is a genre that uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements. A common sub genre is a physiological thrillers, it plants an enigma. A thriller heavily stimulates the viewer's mood such as a high level of anticipation.

The opening scene of Inception.
there is a grey background and feeling to the opening scene, sounds of waves and a mid-shot create a scene of the beach, it then cuts to a close up of a man (believing to be the main character), there is a bit of blurriness creating an enigma, allow the audience to think if this is a dream or reality. It then cuts to a long shot of two children playing with sand castles, but this is viewed in slow motion, projecting a dream . There is then an extreme close up of a gun poking into he man on the sea shore's back; raising the audience heartbeat with tension.

DON'T BE A MENACE

don't be a menace (comedy)
exaggerates racial stereotypes:black people in an urban neighbourhood who shoot each other and don't live over 21.
the mother also accepts that her boy would die and has no care for any other boy.
people around the street do not take any notice of what happens, which shows that this event happens constantly.

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