Word Board- Aidan

This is my word board which will help represent the mood board 

for our thriller opening sequence idea.

Wordboard from Aidan Bradshaw

Mood board - Holly

This mood board that I have created clearly depicts an atmosphere of a very sinister and mysterious feel. i have compiled a mixture of images that capture our idea perfectly. The images specifically of the deserted streets convey an isolating atmosphere. These suggest many things about our opening especially giving a better insight into the narrative as the protagonist is a very isolated character who is in a position of uncertainty and sorrow. The image of the empty interrogation room also put forward this kind of atmosphere as it is very isolating and restricting. 

TECHNICAL: 3 Point Lighting

KEY TERMS

 Key Light: This is the main light. It is usually the strongest and has the most influence on the look of the screen and the audience viewer.

 Fill Light: This is a secondary light and is placed on the opposite side of the key light. It is used to fill the shadows created by the key. The fill will usually be softer and less bright than the key and would be very helpful in our thriller opening sequence

Back Light: This is placed behind the subject and lights in from the rear. Rather than providing direct lighting, its purpose is to provide definition and subtle highlights around the characters outline. This would be very useful in a thriller to create a more scary and horror effect.

PLANNING: Health and Safety - Aidan

Health and safety is very important as we need to make sure that nothing happens to us while filming for our thriller opening sequence, above is a few examples of what could happen and I have explained some ways of dealing with it.

PLANNING - Timeline

This is how we have planned to construct our filming on throughout the day:

Audience Feedback on Concept - How Feedback Shaped Concept Group 5

This is our group podcast on our analysis of the audience feedback.

Planning- Initial decision Group pitch to class of chosen concept (Video)

This is group 5's pitch to our class.

We included many aspects of our initial idea in our pitch and spoke about each aspects like the  

          - Plot 

         - Visuals (Mise-en-scence) / (Camera work) / (Editing) 

         -Sound

         - Title/Credits

         -Age rating 

         -And much more

         -We also got some great feedback which we will consider and try to implement into our thriller opening sequence.

Planning: Initial Idea - Aidan

This is me telling my group about  my opening sequence idea, we made sure that none of us had any idea of what our ideas were! We thought that by doing this it will bring out the uniqueness of each and would be better for us to evaluate and try to bring together for our thriller opening sequence.

I got my ideas mainly from spy/ psychological thrillers. For example the film of 'Bridge of Spies' (2015) Directed by Steven Spielberg gave me some ideas.

Here is the video podcast

Planning: Initial Idea - Vianca

As a group, we came together and shared our ideas of what we would like our thriller opening to be about and filmed it. We took turns telling each other our idea and after we had presented it, the rest offered some feedback. This was great in collecting a greater range of thriller opening concepts ideas as we could use selections of each to make the final decision. Here it is!

My idea was inspired through watching other psychological and crime thrillers. This included films like 'Gone Girl' (2014, Fincher), 'Taken' (2008, Morel) and 'Fight Club' (1999, Fincher). I really liked the twists and smart aspects shown in each film, which then helped me think of my own idea.

Planning: Initial Idea - Holly

Opening Sequence Idea - Tawanda

AUDIENCE RESEARCH: Profile - Aidan

Here I collected all the information together and created a profile of our typical audience member.

AUDIENCE RESEARCH: Profile - Tawanda

Audience Profile


This profile identifies the target audience and how the behave as a result we can tailor our thriller in a way that they would be more likely to be attracted to our movie.

AUDIENCE RESEARCH: Profile - Holly

AUDIENCE RESEARCH: Profile - Vianca

I made a Prezi to show what kind of people I would expect to watch our thriller! Enjoy.

AUDIENCE RESEARCH: People based - Aidan



BELOW IS DIFFERENT TYPES OF AUDIENCE REASEARCH - PEOPLE BASED WHICH I CONDUCTED.

Created and Edited by Myself (Aidan)



1) Questionnaire on Surveymonkey.com (It allows you to create your own survey and to distribute it digitally to a target audience)

I had 24 respondent's which took part in my questionnaire, this helps me as I can get a more accurate idea of what I need in my opening sequence of my thriller opening.
Create your own user feedback survey






Results of Questionnaire: 


Q1): 'What age are you?''

 

Q2: 'What is your gender?'



Q3) Do you like the 'Thriller' genre of movie?







 Q4) What sub genre of thriller do you prefer?















































Q5) What is your favourite thing about a Thriller?




Q6: How important is the use of props, costumes and

makeup in a thriller opening sequence?



Q7) How much of the plot do you think should be revealed in
 the opening sequence of a thriller?

Q8) How do you think the opening sequence should open?

Analysis of each question.

Q1) It shows my target audience being around the age of 11-20 as 87.5%. This shows me my main audience which my thriller is targeted to.

 Q2) I can see that from my audience research more males are interested in thrillers compared to female, however there is a large interest from female at 41.6%

 

 Q3) I can see that more people like thrillers compared to those who don't.

75% yes

some reasons:

-They are exciting and never get boring

-I enjoy the adrenaline

-I like the fact that most thrillers always build up to a significant event.

 25% no

some reasons:

-Not the specific genre the respondent likes.

 

Q4)I can see the popular sub-genres which people enjoy are Psychological, Conspiracy, Supernatural and Spy. This gives me ideas of which I can perhaps create my opening sequence towards.

 

Q5)I can see the two popular choices was violence and interesting plot along with plot twists. The other comment which the respondent said was ‘Doesn’t really interest me, I'm more of a romantic, comedy, sci-fi, action and Disney film kind of person!'

Q6)I can see that overall props, costumes and makeup is beneficial in a thriller opening and perhaps this indicates we should use it in our openings.

 

Q7)I can see it is important to give a clear image of our plot away in the opening sequence; this might be to give the audience an image in their mind at the beginning of the clip.

 

Q8)The plot being a flashback seemed to be the most popular with my respondants. In addition to this a chase scence, a everyday life scenario, and finally a flash forward were popular choices too. This could hep me plan ideas in my own opening sequence for the plot.

Overall the questionnaire was successful and has helped me in the Audience research of thrillers and types of opening sequences.

2) Focus group

This is my focus group with my friends, their age ranges from 16-17 which is quiet helpful for me as I plan my to have an age rating certificate of 15 for my thriller opening.



3)Interview

This is my audience research interview with Giordano, I got some very helpful feedback and answers from Giordano and I plan to try and use this to help my thriller.

AUDIENCE RESEARCH: People Based - Holly

QUESTIONNAIRE
MY THRILLER GENRE QUESTIONNAIRE

RESULTS -
20 people filled out my survey.

Q1.

- N/A

- 70%

- 15%

- 10%

 - 5%


Q2.

- 35%

- 65%


 Q3.

-  90%

- 5%

- 5%


Q4.

 - 25%

- 10%

- 5%

- 20%

- 30%

- 5%

- 5%


Q5.

- 85%

- 10%

- N/A

- N/A

- 5%


Q6.

-  30%

-  60%

- 10%


Q7.

- 25%

- 15%

- N/A

- 40%

- 15%




ANALYSIS
From my results I can see that the majority of people who took part were teenagers so I know to make the rating of my thriller a 15 so it would be targeted to teenagers. Its interesting that most of those who participated in my survey are females and more than half of the overall number said that they enjoyed thrillers. Stereotypically it would be the other way around. The sub-genres that were most picked as a favourite was conspiracy and psychological but the highest number of people said that they like all types of thrillers. There was a very prominent general agreement that the use of props and costumes was of very high importance, so I know to pay close attention to the element of mise-en-scene when planning my thriller. there was a higher number of people who said that it was best to have as little information revealed about the plot in the beginning sequence so I will definitely take that into consideration.


INTERVIEW

AUDIENCE RESEARCH: People Based - Tawanda

Questionnaire

Create your own user feedback survey 

Interview with cinema goer: Darius

Focus group

Doc1 dhsad

AUDIENCE RESEARCH: People Based - Vianca

Focus Group

I gathered a focus group and showed them an opening of a thriller - 'Sicario'. I asked them a few questions after they had watched it and filmed their answers, as well as their reactions whilst watching it (but skip to 3:36 if you don't want to watch the reactions!)



So, in conclusion, I found that surprising events, such as the dead bodies appearing in 'Sicario', will surprise the audience and have that thought in their mind throughout the film, making them want to carry on watching. I think that the less the film reveals as an opening, though powerful and intense, the more the audience are peeled to the screens wanting to watch until the end.

Interview

I then did the same but with a 17 year old student, where I managed to ask her more questions in depth about thriller openings and thrillers in general. We watched 2 thriller openings and after each one, we had a discussion about them and I asked for her feedback. Have a watch! 

AUDIENCE RESEARCH: Institutional, Film Listings - Holly

AUDIENCE RESEARCH: Institutional, FDA - Vianca

Film Distributors' Association

http://www.launchingfilms.com

Thrillers been released:

'Chappie' (Blomcamp, 2015) March 6th 

Certificate: 15
Audience Figures: Rated 6.9/10 on IMDb, 41% on Metacritic, 31% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Success: Budget was $49 million and had a box office figure of $102.1 million. This is very successful in terms of profit because they received over double their budget from box office!

'Brothers' (Sheridan, 2010) Jan 22nd 

Certificate: 15
Audience Figures: 7/10 on IMDb, 63% on Rotten Tomatoes and 58% on Metacritic
Success: Budget was $26 million with a box office figure of $43.3 million


Thrillers on release:

'Hateful Eight' (Tarantino, 2016) Jan 8th

Certificate: 18
Audience Figures: Rated 8/10 on IMDb, 68% on Metacritic, 3/5 on The Guardian.
Success: Budget $44 million with a gross total of $4 million on the opening weekend in UK and Domestic Total of $53,178,994 in the month of February 2016. It is still increasing!

'Spotlight' (McCarthy, 2015) Nov 6th 

Certificate: 15
Audience Figures: 8.2/10 on IMDb, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
Success: With a $20 million budget, it only received $1.5 million on the opening weekend in UK and a box office of $37.9 million


Thrillers due to release:

'10 Cloverfield Lane' (Trachtenberg, 2016) March 11th

'Now You See Me 2' (Chu. 2016) June 10th

These two films have not yet been released so have no specific information about box office or budget etc. yet.

Audience?

From this research, I have found out a lot about thriller films' successes and their audience. There are many thriller films that have been released and are out right now/due to be but the main thing I found out is that some are more successful, in different ways, than others. For example, 'Hateful Eight' (Tarantino, 2016) had a budget of $44 million and a $53.2 million domestic total whereas 'Spotlight' (McCarthy, 2015) had a box office total of $37.9 million domestic total with a budget of $20 million. In terms of earnings, 'Spotlight' would have been more successful as despite the fact that it had a lower budget, it still made over 17 million more the budget, but, 'Hateful Eight' only made 9 million more.

'Spotlight' has a certificate of 15 but 'Hateful Eight' is an 18 film. This means a large majority of the people who are under 18 cannot watch 'Hateful Eight', therefore it restricts a lot of the young generation population to watch it. Nowadays, the majority of the cinema-goers are the young generation, so the age classification may have brought some profit problems. However, it is an 18 because it contains things that younger people may find disturbing. This means Tarantino had already made an audience by the choice of the certificate before it had came out on the big screen.

Thrillers that had previously been released have had great success. Chappie' (Blomcamp, 2015) - an action/sci-fi thriller, was successful as it had a box office of $102.1 million from a budget of only $49 million. This helped me understand that that thrillers with extraordinary narratives can also be as successful as those with simple plots. I think because it had such a non-cliché plot, the audience had an eye for it and was intrigued to watch it to see what it was about - like what a conventional thriller aims to do.    

AUDIENCE RESEARCH: Institutional, IMDb - Aidan

IMDb Audience Research

AUDIENCE RESEARCH: Institutional, BBFC website - Tawanda

Bbfc from tawas16

Thriller Opening Sequence Analysis - Tawanda

Thriller opening sequence Analysis- Aidan

Analysis to opening sequence of a thriller, kingsman, the secret service from Aidan Bradshaw

 

Titles and Credits

 

The titles are credits in the Kingsman are very bold and are can be seen very clearly. The have a unique fade on to the screen which captures the audiences eye.

 

Here below are the credits

 

 

 

 

A consistent trend throughout all this that the font is the same and the colour schemes are carried out, we plan to do the same in our thriller opening sequence.  

 

 

Thriller Opening Sequence Analysis - Vianca

'Sicario' (Villeneuve, 2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37K_bHu2NyA

Plot

'Sicario' is an action/crime thriller film. It is about drug violence worsening on the USA-Mexico border and the FBI sends an idealistic agent, Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) on a mission to eradicate a drug carter responsible for a bomb that had killed members of her team.

The opening scene shows when the team sets out to a Mexican home, charging in and looking for hostages. Someone had tried to shoot the protagonist, but she had dodged it, managing to shoot the man dead. The attempt shot left a hole on a wall which leaded to the protagonists' fellow team member to notice something weird inside the walls - dead hostages.
(After 3 minutes on, another team member found a locked basement. They tried to opening it, only to find out there was a bomb)

Mise-en-scene

Front room of house - It has the below minimum of basic household items: a TV, a TV stand with 3 legs and a chair which came from the back seat of a car. It shows their low-quality of life, and the extent of it, they don't even have basic items to live in their home which may be their motive as to why they do what they do.

Mexicans outfit - The first man was in a  vest and 3/4s with flip flops, eating on a small plastic bowl. This suggests that they are not that wealthy and are possibly the antagonists because as the FBI are intruding into a house like that shows they must have done something really bad to be raided by that many FBIs.

Location - It is in the middle of nowhere, adhering to the fact that it is a thriller. Usually, thrillers are set in an area of a stranded land where there is barely/no-one around.

Costume - The FBIs are in similar outfits as it is their uniform. The fact that the protgonist, we assume, is a woman and she is holding a gun goes against the conventional of a protagonist of a thriller (which is usually a strong, brave man). This is interesting because it makes the audience read the character better and question her position, in terms of position in the FBI and who she is in the film.

Editing

'In Mexico, Sicario means hitman' - This gives the audience some background information as to what the film could be about. Hitman means someone who is paid to kill someone for a criminal or political organisation. The audience will immediately know it is an action/crime genre and the fact that it is only one line of information says very little, making the audience crave more information.

Match-on-action when gun shots - The match-on-action shows a continuity flow to the action. Because it contains short cuts, it creates a faster pace and higher intesity making the audiences' experience more exciting. This is conventional to a thriller as thrillers always have fast pace scenes where the audience need their eyes peeled to see what has just happened.

Camera Compositions 

Establishing/Wide Shot of Arizona -

Midshot crew - The midshot of the crew shows how many FBIs were sent for this specific task, suggesting it is a very big mission for them. It is represented in a slowly, zooming out, mid-shot, creating suspense as it takes quite long for the final view of the team to appear.

P.O.V car towards house - This point of view shot makes the audience feel as if they are driving the car or at least inside it. It makes them feel part of the action, which was the director's intention as it is a way of keeping the audience peeled.

Mid-shot of dead hostages - The mid-shot of dead hostages is a moment of realisation of how bad the things the Mexicans were hiding, making the audience understand why they needed that many FBIs for this big mission.

Sound  

Increasing drumming sound towards house - The sound is important in creating a mood for the audience, especially in a thriller. The increasing tone and volume of the non-diegetic sound makes the audience be at the edge of their seats wondering where the FBIs are off to.

Dialogue of protagonist 'FBI don't move' - This dialogue shows a sense of leadership and determination. Kate is clearly a good leader to the others, regardless of her gender, which is unconventional as usually protagonists in thrillers are men who are supposedly muscly and  masculine.

Gun shots - The Mexican man shot once as opposed to Kate shooting about 5 times ensuring he is dead. This shows how smart the protagonist is, which is a quality of a thriller as protagonists are usually the heroes and the ones who evolve the puzzle within the plot.

Thriller opening sequence analysis - Holly

Group 5 podcast #1: opening sequence analysis (The Dark Knight)

Institutional Research - Tawanda

Guardians of the Galaxy (Erin Sarofsky, 2014) 

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/guardians-of-the-galaxy/



This is the the is the opening sequence of Guardians of the galaxy. this picture show the nine main frame s of the sequence show some of the text including the main title.



key: T = text /(0000) = time
this is the title sequence analysis showing the credits and job roles of the people in and behind the film its self and also show the sound content of the opening sequence.


For this task I had to watch any film opening, in which I chose 'Guardians of the galaxy' 2014.In the opening there were a total of 33 texts shown in the 3 minutes 52 seconds opening of the film. The reason to why there is credits in the opening sequence are for us to know who was the cast, crew and the titles/credits for distributors.

The second timeline that I did was on sound, everything in which I heard for example music. In total there were 5 changes that I had heard during the 3 minutes 52 seconds of the opening for the film. From the audio it gives me a taster on what the film will be like. In 'Guardians' I assume from the sound track that there is something awaiting a danger later in the movie that will be met with a battle between good and bad.

Institutional Research - Holly

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Institutional Research - Vianca

'Evil Dead' (Alvarez, 2013)

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/evil-dead/

This opening sequence was 1 minute 56 seconds long with a total of 23 types of text which consisted of important information of the film; such as the director, producer and cast members. 

The visual of the opening sequence started off very dark and gloomy and in fact quite slow-paced. This makes the audience feel anticipation as the slow pace and very dark, close-up images makes them wonder what on earth is going on! It then increased in pace, by the end, with the use of flashing images and lighter shades of the same dark red colours. The flashing images are become faster and faster throughout the near-end until the screen just goes blank, making the audience feel uncomfortable and almost off their seats, with the help of the audio, increasing in speed and a lower pitch to sound more frightening. It created an intense and inquisitive mood, which is just what the director, Alvarez, wanted to do before the audience actually begin to watch the film. 

In terms of the 9 frame sequence, the significant moments are picked out well. Each of the frame have the same tone and shades of colours which are dark, red and black shades and you can clearly see the change in brightness from the start to the end! 

The beginning gives the audience a sense of fear as black and red are colours of death, blood and danger. The fonts are all in CAPITALS, in a way as if it's rusting or tree branches are splattered across it. The title 'EVIL DEAD' is boldly presented in the middle of the screen, almost taking up the whole space. The text include Co-Producer, Casting, Director of Photography, Main Actress, Producer and Music. The other frames with no text are images of stairs with blood on them and possibly a fire explosion in the last frame, which looks very contrasted against the dark shades of red throughout the frames. This gives the audience a feel of slight confusion to wonder what that really is and why it is there. 

Instutional Research- Aidan

Instutional Research- Aidan

Fury(2014)- Opening Sequence

 http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/fury/ 

Key: Crew / Title / Cast 

For this task I had to watch any film opening, in which I chose 'Fury' 2014. Once watching the opening I then had to create two timelines (above picture) one for 'Text'  In the opening there were a total of 27 texts shown in the 2 minutes 30 seconds opening of the film. . The reason to why there is all these titles are for us to know who was the cast, crew and the titles/credits for distributors. 

Underneath the first line I have 19 visuals which shows what happens on the screen during the 'Fury opening sequence. It includes plane crashes, tanks and gun shootings. This is too make the text look more interesting and so that the audience can get a starting image of what the film is going to be about.

The second timeline that I did was on sound, everything in which I heard for example music. In total there were 7 changes that I had heard during the 2 minutes 32 seconds of the opening for the film. From the audio it gives me a taster on what the film will be like. In 'Fury' I assume that the film that their was a battle ahead and in relation to context of war due to the audio sounding like soldiers chanting while marching with the use of the music playing throughout the opening scene. 

Researching The Thriller Genre - Tawanda

Researching the Thriler Genre - Aidan pt 2

CONVENTIONS OF A THRILLER.

Conventions of a thriller part 2 from Aidan Bradshaw

Researching the Thriler Genre - Aidan

1) Research the generic features of a thriller film.

 



2) Analysis of a film poster

Thriller poster anaylsis from AidanBradshaw 

 

3) Thriller Narratives

Researching Thriller Genre - Vianca

This is a Prezi of 3 Thriller films I researched about. They are all different types of thrillers are have completely different concepts, which I found very interesting!



From this, I learnt that the thriller genre is very popular and very much by cinema-goers. It is interesting to see that box offices depend on how well advertised they are. For example, 'Everest' (2015, Kormakur) was marketed everywhere for quite a long time, around its release date of September. This meant they were able to catch a lot of people's eyes, not just by the posters and trailers, but also because of the film plot.



























Here is a trailer I looked in depth in - 'Shutter Island' (Scorses, 2010). I analysed it considering Mise-en-scene, Cameras, Editing, and Sound. Take a look!

Thriller trailers - Analysis from Shane Santillan

This is my poster analysis of 'Shutter Island'!

Researching the Thriller Genre - Holly

3 SPECIFIC THRILLER EXAMPLES



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THRILLER POSTER ANALYSIS

Preliminary Task Evaluation Pt 2 - Tawanda

production process - The production process refers to the stages  required to complete a media product, from the idea to the final master copy. we used pre-production, production and post- production during our preliminary task.

Pre-production

Pre-production was the shortest stages out of the three tasks as we were only given 10 minute to carry this stage out as a team. we were only able to do basic pre-production as the time was scarce. we managed to work out who is filming, acting  also work out the basic plot of the short video. my team felt that i was the right man to carry out the cinematography. This was due to my experience using dslr and my creativity and steadiness when it come to framing and how i take advantage of different vantage point to make for a more interesting, moving image.The acting was allocated to Aidan as the main due to his naturalness in-front of the camera. Vianca and Holly were also allocated as supporting actors. This was due to their naturalness also. Vianca was  director to control what happens within the filming. Then after we thought of a quick story and then decided the locations to film. There weren't many choices to choose from as we were restricted to film inside the school site. So collectively we decided to film in the Sixth form block  

during this we also made a quick storyboard. a story board is a sequence of drawings, typically with some directions and dialogue, representing the shots planned for a film or television production. We used it help construct our shots.

example of story board

Production
The production stage is where we gained our footage and actually started using the brief little plans we made within the pre-production stage such as camera shots and etc. This stage lasted 20 minutes and we managed to capture a lot of the same shots in different vantage point, i also managed to incorporate rule of thirds in quite a few of my shots

post-production
The post production process we split the team in two so we can all get a chance to edit. during this point we getting to grasps with basics such as shot-reverse-shot, match-on-action and 180-degree rule.

improvements

• more time on all sessions
• better locations outside of school
• re-shot some shots
• shorter walking scenes
•  better subject or topic within vedio

Preliminary Task Evaluation - Tawanda

         As a class we were given a Preliminary task, the task we received was to create a short video. This short video had to display our filming and continuity editing skills. Within the short film we had to display the three key aspects of filming. Match on action, shot-reverse-shot and the 180-degree rule. These are all aspects that make successful and smooth continuity editing. Continuity editing is created in a chronological way to achieve a sense of realism. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots. To add, within our short video we had to also include conversation consisting of two or more lines, a character passing through a door, finally a shot of a character walking and, lastly, a shot of the character siting down.

Our preliminary task did in fact contain all three set actions, which were:

• Exchanging two sentences of conversation (while sitting down on a chair opposite another character
• Walking across a room
• Opening a door
• Sitting down

The techniques and examples

Match-on-action
Match on action (or cutting on action) is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot. This technique, rather cunningly, distracts the audience of the rather evident cut, by masking the cut and instead makes look continuous (hence continuity editing). This technique adds a sense verisimilitude due to its continuity and seamlessness. 

Theory example:                                                                    Practical example

At one minute and sixteen second the main actor Aidan is entering the door and appears on the other side finishing of the action of opening the door. This allows the video to flow, while not being intruded by the “un-continuity” of the unedited footage from prior to the end of post-production. This technique allows us to connect two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement. This is done by editing the footage carefully together. 

Shot-Reverse-Shot

Shot reverse shot is a continuity editing technique used in conversations or simply characters looking at each other or objects. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other. This style of editing consists of cuts to each person’s face while the face of the person who is being confronted is no seen through the use of the ‘over the shoulder shot’.

Theory example:                                                                    Practical example

In the theory example shows a third camera being used however we only managed to use two shots but still meet the requirements of the shot its self. In the practical example there is an example of Aidan and Vianca completing their two lines of dialogue within this shot. Shot reverses shot used effectively during the dialogue.

180 Degree Rule

180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. The rule states that the camera/cameras should remain the same side of an imaginary line. The rule is introduced during an establishing shot of the characters. If the camera crosses the line at any point, it will create a confusing and uncomforted feeling for the audience because it makes it look like the people are switching positions in the screen, which is unrealistic.

Theory example:                                                                    Practical example

In this example we can see Vianca and Holly communicating and the rule is not broken and follows the guidelines on the diagram above. This means the audience is not confused by the shot as it follows the 180 Degree Rule. Thus as a result, this creates seamless continuity within the editing.