Little Film School

Those of us who are following the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, as well as all other soccer fans, must know how much influence a manager’s actions and personality have on the overall performance of the team.
In this sense they are not different from film directors.

The last in the series of articles about “crossing the line” jumps in with some clarifications and examples of our improved version of this rule.

Suspense is found in many film genres: horrors, thrillers, crime films, even melodrama. Audiences like to be frightened or wondering what’s going to happen next. Suspense is what keeps them glued to the seat.

Saying that the camera should not cross the line for the whole scene would be like saying that people should not cross the road for the whole day because the traffic light was red in the morning.

This is a basic film making guideline that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other.

Ok, so you are a filmmaker. But that’s neither a job nor a position. Let’s find out what you really are…