Breaking Down the 180-Degree Rule
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- After watching this video you will understand the 180-degree rule.
There's a lot more to shooting a great scene than just planting a camera somewhere and yelling action. We all want to shoot a scene that can be cut together to achieve great continuity with a good variety of shots. The 180-degree rule is a useful tool to help you achieve this. In this segment we talk about the basic principles of the rule, establishing action lines, working with shifting action lines, and redefining the action line using neutral shots, camera movement, and cutaways. Knowing how to apply the 180-degree rule, and when you might want to break it can take your production skills to a higher level.
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Great thank you! Learned more here than in my college class 😊
Rad. Thank you so much!
i am a professional film editor with feature film experience. just wanted to point out that films will often break the rule- its not a hard and fast one. Once space has been established- and audiences have been orientated, one can often break the line . For example, we can break the line as filmmakers with another establishing wide from the other side- then jump back in, or with any wide lens shot- that gives us perspective. Give the audience a chance to catch up- and you can pull it off. for example breaking bad does this quite often, and well i might add. cutting from cu to cu however is tricky to do, but action films such as bourne, etc do it fast and frequently. And as pointed out in the vid, for frenzy or to disorient- work it that way.
just wanted to say this for new filmmakers who hold it as some kind of law, or who use it to argue their coverage. GET IT ALL- shoot it from wherever is interesting. see what works in the cutting room, often when filmmakers stick too hard and fast to these rules- the result is often a show that comes out a bit too tv like- and very generic feeling.
"GET IT ALL- shoot it from wherever is interesting. see what works in the cutting room" -- spoken like a true editor. Sidney Lumet is rolling in his grave.
I am not an editor and have no experience professionally, which makes me a viewer or something. Anyway...
I notice the editing techniques when I watch movies. I get bored with a systematic method. The monotony puts me to sleep. Zzzzz.... When a scene makes me wonder how did they film that, I sit a little closer to the screen.
Dark Knight: Batman interrogating Joker is a perfect example.
Breaking Bad is the shit man, I love the camera work in that show. I think another scene where they pull this off quite well is when Batman is interrogating the Joker in The Dark Knight.
I disagree to an extent that the interrogation scene in TDK is breaking the rule. Every time the camera crosses the line of action the preceding shot has the camera moving noticeably towards the line, then the next shot (which is indeed on the other side of the previous line) is moving from the center away from the line of action. So, what Nolan has creatively done is use camera movement between the two shots to identify the shift to the other side of the line. In this case I don't think the "rule" is "broken".
its important to understand the rules in filmmaking, but more importantly to know that they aren't rules, and that they aren't hard and fast, a good cinematographer/director will get what s interesting regardless, and a good editor will know how to make it work in any sense of the "rule". what s important is an open mind. I've seen plenty of young filmmakers , grips, etc, question the dp, "oh you can't do that- you re breaking the line!!".
One of the most concise and clear break downs of this rule.
HOLY CRAP thank you so much for this video. It's such a simpler way to think of it than the way we are currently trying to work it out with camera left to actor right etc. Such an elegant and simple way to imagine it. 180 degree rule. You've changed my life!
This was the most clear simple explanation of the rule I've found, thank you
This is an absolutely brilliant video. Superb content, and wonderful presentation because of the 'pace' of talking and the clarity of the medium length sentences. This was a presentation by a young and truly gifted teacher. Thanks so much!
I learned in the class when i study.This video's very good and easy to understands. Axis is a basic of continuity that Hollywood,TV commercial and MV show a mistake in many time.
One of the best video on 180 rule. Helped me understand the rule with crystal clarity.
Thank you so much.
Really great! These infos will definitely improve the quality of my skateboarding videos. Thank you videomaker!
that was awesome mate thanks for a great video
+stu crompton Thank you! you're welcome.
I always learn great stuff from you gentlemen! Thanks!
Good video, good explanations, good examples of each and how it works and how it doesn't work if you use the rule!
Really informative and helpful! Thank you!
Well presented and exemplified. I am on your channel from now on. Hats off
im working on a short comic and this really help on my shot comp!
It's mind blowing how many scenes in movies, and T.V., I've seen, and yet, knew so little, about how so much goes into them! In a way, it is an art form best not recognized.
an art form? go fck yourself
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Great explanation of the concept, thanks.
Thanks a lot man ! was really easy to understand
wonderful video, it helps me learn a lot!
Thanks for the explanation, it was very clearly, nice video
Great video! Clear and effective explanation.
Good explanation of the rule. Thank you !
Great tutorial, I had been wondering for a while how to manage camera angles when dealing with 3 people in the frame like at 4:43, great advice here!
Thank you for this video! I'm in school for digital design and animation. I enjoy editing and have to create a short film for class. This video helped explain the 180-Degree "Suggestion" better for me! It was extremely helpful having actual footage to view with the explanation!
Thanks for uploading such an informative video. I learnt a ton of great knowledge through this. This will help surely. :)
I Love it! Thank you for this Information.
The best video on this.
Surprisingly insightful. Thank you so much.
Thats such an awesome concept! Well I learned something today ;)
fantastic! i had difficulty understanding this rule until now!
Thank you very much guys! Nice job!
Good explanation!! Thanks very much!
This is brilliantly explained!!! Wish I saw this sooner!
Thank you! you are so kind.
Thanks! This is really helpful.
Useful, thanks!
That was really helpful!..... thanks guys
Thank you for uploading this interesting and informative video, which is so clearly presented.
+Valerie J Thank you!
Finally I understand. Thanks for the video!
Thanks. Very clear.
Great work. Thanks a lot!
Explained clearly. Good job....ONCE AGAIN
Thanks for the videos. It's helpful :)
OUTSTANDING! THANK YOU!!!
Thank you sooooo much. You explained it much better than my Professor!
great video easy to follow thanks
Very useful and clear video, thanks!
+Henry Norgrove Thank you!
Really informative..... easy to comprehend.
really instructive .. thank you
Awesome advice. Thanks.
Great work. Thank you.
Thank you too!
Helpful thanks great video
thank u very much ...u are an amazing teacher........ plz keep uploading such vidos
Great Video. thumbs up
great!! simple and clean!!
awesome information thank u very much.......
How does Quentin Tarantino do his 360 spinning camera as it goes to each actor when they're talking? For example, the beginning scene of Resevoir Dogs where they're talking about whether or not to tip waitresses or the diner table scene in Death Proof where they're talking about the car chase movie Vanishing Point.
really good vid. like others said, learned something important today.
Amazing...biiig thanks.this is really helpful ! :)
Good info,,, to the point... 👌👌
Very well explained, thank you.
+Victor H. C. G. Thank you!
Very nice job
This is crucial info thanks
Kubrick broke the rules in the Shining to evoke confusion
great video!
Brilliant. Thank you very much.
I learned so much from this!!!!!
This is great. Make more!
Great lesson for beginners like me. Thaks a lot.
thanks a lot. really helpful.
Very helpful thanks!
great vid, eye gets better thru out tutorial too....
Yeah 😂
Ilove it...thanks very nice tutorial
Nice .... Worth watch
and irl examples? very good!
really thank you!
You should upload more videos like this, maybe some montage tricks. Great video.
very helpful tutorial i am happy with it, but the question is why the viewer would get lost if u jump out of the 180 degree arc O.o i didn't really notice it or got lost when u did it . because the camera is focused on the person talking also on the first shot he was on right now he is on left so it would totally make sense that he has different background ... is there something i am missing here?
Feeling like this should be in a director's 101 playlist
Very helpful! Thank you!
You're welcome!
thanks for the video.. big up
thanks for the informations.
Thanks a lot for this fruitful video
+Rana Mohammed Abdelwahab you're welcome
Very informative , well deduced
thanks for the tutorial, it really educating and simple. 180 degree rule
really helpful thanks
Thank you so much.
Great! Thank you! What about line of action in fighting scenes? Can the rule be broken there?
Fight scenes should always break the 180 rule, it adds to the frenetic pace and constantly redirects action and tension, in Bourne Identity, the camera is constantly circling the fighters.
Great vid.
wow superb video make more of this
What camera are u using?
This is a great tutorial :)
love it!
Very informative.
That was fantastic. Thank you!
+dpmelson Thank you!
will you please addd closed captioning? thank you
Bigger productions have 'continuity editors'. Is this related to this topic?
When shooting, are there 'neutral' shots needed as precautions for cut/ edits later?
Continuity for sound, lighting - more on this please?
good job guys
You guys rock
hey i have question how are you filing the conversation piece. Is there more than one camera? and with one camera how do u suggest filming that. multiple takes?
The Channel of Everything it all depend on your shots. If camera A can be seen or inside the frame of camera B, then you have to shoot mutiple takes. If not, then you can apply more than one camera on set.