{"id":10877,"date":"2011-02-16T12:28:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T12:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=10877"},"modified":"2011-02-16T12:29:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T12:29:40","slug":"the-180-degree-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/02\/16\/the-180-degree-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"The 180 Degree Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10878\" title=\"The 180 Degree Rule\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/The-180-Degree-Rule.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the basic rules in filmmaking is the <strong>180 degree rule<\/strong>, which prevents audience confusion.<\/p>\n<p>The rule is a basic guideline which states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left\/right relationship to each other.<\/p>\n<p>This video explains it using a scene from Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0052357\/\">Vertigo<\/a><\/strong> (1958) as an example:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/7092938?byline=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.film.queensu.ca\/250\/250Continuity.html\">Other rules in Editing<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vertigo_(film)\">Vertigo<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the basic rules in filmmaking is the 180 degree rule, which prevents audience confusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1855,1854],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}