Half A Room - The 180° Rule

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I really enjoyed putting my understanding of this piece of work into a visual medium. Being the camera operative really showed the expression of this further. I already knew the 180° rule from college, as it was required to understand the TV production unit. I decided because I like being fancy that I was going to animate the titles onto the door, proof of further edit understanding with keyframes. I was going to use After Effects, but for an hour-and-a-half turnaround, I decided it was an unnecessary move.

The actual production went really well though. director Kimberley came up with the idea of interpreting the script in the context of the film itself, meaning we could have our actors not act out a script in any sort of fashion and have hundreds of takes messing up lines. In total we only did 24 takes for 7 angles, something I am very happy with, it felt substantial and we utilised the time to its maximum potential. 

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