In media, our group consisting of me, Becky, Yusuf, Lily and Elliot we had to make a short production containing a scene with two characters using the 180 degrees axis rule whilst filming.
The 180 degrees axis rule is a basic rule that means two characters should always have the same left and right relationship to each other. When a camera crosses the axis connecting to two characters it is called ‘crossing the line’. The new shot is called the reverse angle. Meaning
The characters we used were Yusuf and Becky, where in the scene Becky revealed to Yusuf that she was pregnant, but he may not be the father as she had cheated on him.
To film these scenes, we used a variety of different shots and had to film the scrip twice. Once focusing on Becky, and the second time focusing on Yusuf.
The first was filmed by Lily, who was focusing on Becky and the camera stayed on Becky the whole time and you could only hear what Yusuf was saying as you couldn’t see him. The second time, I was doing the filming and the focus was on Yusuf. The shot I used was close up shot to show his reactions to what Becky was saying, and we could only hear Becky this time and not see her.
When filming, Lily who filmed Becky and me who filmed Yusuf had to look at the eye level of where the characters were looking to make it look like they were looking at each other whilst talking, and to make it look like it was shot the same time even though it was 2 completely different shots filmed by two different people. To do this, we had to use the eye line shot. The shot we used was aerial shot to film them both in a 2 person dialogue.
A picture of the 180 degree axis rule and a 2 person dialouge which Becky and Yusuf were using in this performance.
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