DON'T CROSS THE LINE!!! | 180 Degree Rule Explained
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- The 180 Degree Rule is a fundamental rule for maintaining spatial continuity. We want the people who watch our movies to know and understand where everyone is and what they're doing. To achieve that, we must maintain continuity in both our blocking (where are characters are positioned and how they move) and our framing (how the camera sees those characters and how the camera moves around them). That's what the 180 Degree Rule does for us. It keeps everyone and everything in place, so our shots, scenes, and films make visual sense.
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My name is Garrett. I am a full-time commercial producer, part-time film professor, and avid whiskey enthusiast living in Metro Detroit. I began on UA-cam to help bridge the technical and financial gap filmmakers face by giving away the same content I talk about in my classrooms. Learn tricks of the trade, discover new gear, stay up with filmmaking trends, dive into how I pull off cinematic looks, and so much more.
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Love these basic videos! Very helpful and easy to understand!
Happy to help Jac!
Yes. I agree 👍
A big concept was explained in a "nursery" language, I really learned about 180 degree rule. Thank you so much
This is great stuff, I was going to comment about hoping to see a “How to Break the 180 Rule” video until the slide/line reset part started. Thanks again Garrett!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for this explanation. Your drawing skills are perfect. No need to apologize.
Thanks Leslie!
Very helpful and extremely well explained. Thanks!
A few video Ideas I would love to see personally.
1. Your set up for filming these videos. (Camera/lens/color correction/lighting/sound etc.)
2. Your thoughts on your 4k video camera vs others on the market.
3. Is a Red camera worth the price for a small operation (2 guys making music videos) and what's the best alternative to still get a competitive image.
Keep it up, just found your channel today and have been watching every video. I feel like I've seen every camera video on youtube at this point and everything that comes out of your mouth I can trust 100%. You are extremely detailed and we love it. More AE tutorials would be sick too.
Thanks Trevor! I’ll definitely keep these in mind as I make more videos.
Up until I saw this video it was more of an intuitive feeling something about the movement of the camera was wrong.
This explains perfectly why it it happens, saving a lot of trial and error attempts at correction. And if you want a scene to be confusing or disturbing you could probably cross the line on purpose. Like in a horror scene, the jump scares might be a result of not knowing exactly where the line is.
This is really great for my Year 10 Media class! Thanks for the simple explanation!
this video really helped! keep grindin dude 👍!
U r giving answers to all my curiosities about behind the scenes in film making.
Solid stuff Garrett! Found you via the now famous Paul CC email lol
That email thread was hilarious! 😂 Glad to have you around dude.
Cheers so much, you're the only one who made me finally get it, because you're the one who explained it in a way, I could understand and not just that but how to break it too, plus the Western genre example and your simple reset the line trick! Absolute genius you are plus funny as sarcasm too:)
So glad you found it helpful! It’s one of those things that’s easy to know, more difficult to explain.
So helpful just subbed keep these types of videos !
First time I’ve ever posted a comment but I felt compelled to because.... geegollywow that was a phenomenal bit of hot and fresh content!!! Keep up the awesome work educating on how to create great visual content.
I’m happy to help Louis! Glad you liked it 🤙
Can you do a video on preparing a storyboard
This is awesome man, I'm starting to learn about filmmaking and the way you teach makes it E A S Y to absorb. Greetings from Honduras!
Hey, thanks!
Thank you Ace!
SUUUPER helpfull Garrett! thank you so much
Happy to help!
Good video and your Drawing’s are awesome and better than mine
Thanks man!
The line. Powerful!
Great video! I've never thought about this before when watching movies.
Glad to help! It’s one of those things you’ll never unsee now 😉
left handed drawer, love it
Thanks for the video,
Yes more introductions for beginners, like this
You got it!
hey, why line counter disappeared?! :/
Thank you for the video, nice thing to learn.
I don't know if the line counter would be able to count that high 😂
Pls what music did you use for the background
Okay - I get it. But (and there’s always a but!), I thought the 180° rule referred to making your
shutter speed twice the frame rate?
That’s the 180 degree shutter rule. Nearly identical names! But yes, generally shutter angle should be 180 degrees unless you’re using shutter speed. In that case, doubling the frame rate essentially does the same thing.
You think this rule can also be useful for stop motion?
Absolutely! This helps establish spacier awareness and physical placement. So important for any moving medium, including stop motion.
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Love your videos! WAY too many commercial for the time spent. It pulls me out of what you're saying and I actually stopped watching this one, I don't need a commercial every 1:48 seconds, it's just annoying. How about ONE commercial in an 8 minute video?
There are no rules.
There’s a great book called, “The Filmmaker’s Eye” that does a great job explaining the basic rules of cinematography and how to appropriately break them.
You have to draw a line in the sand, dude. THIS LINE, YOU DO NOT... Oh china-man is not the right nomenclature; Asian-American, please...
It’s been so long since I’ve watched The Big Lebowski! I gotta go back to it. The Cohen Brothers are geniuses.
@@garrettsammons It's a once a year ritual for me...