dimanche 2 octobre 2016

Film lesson 1 - The 180° rules


In film making, the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. An imaginary line called the axis connects the characters, and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character is always frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first. The camera passing over the axis is called jumping the line or crossing the line; breaking the 180-degree rule by shooting on all sides is known as shooting in the round
The 180-degree rule enables the audience to visually connect with unseen movement happening around and behind the immediate subject and is important in the narration of battle scenes.


   This schematic shows the axis between two characters and the 180° arc on which cameras may be positioned (green). When cutting from the green arc to the red arc, the characters switch places on the screen.

Example

In a dialogue scene between two characters, a straight line can be imagined running between the two characters, and extending to infinity. If the camera remains on one side of this line, the spatial relationship between the two characters will be consistent from shot to shot, even if one of the characters is not on screen. Shifting to the other side of the characters on a cut will reverse the order of the characters from left to right and may disorient the audience. 
The rule also applies to the movement of a character as the "line" created by the path of the character. For example, if a character is walking in a leftward direction and is to be picked up by another camera, the character must exit the first shot on frame left and enter the next shot frame right.
jump cut can be used to denote time. If a character leaves the frame on the left side and enters the frame on the left in a different location, it can give the illusion of an extended amount of time passing.
Another example could be a car chase: If a vehicle leaves the right side of the frame in one shot, it should enter from the left side of the frame in the next shot. Leaving from the right and entering from the right creates a similar sense of disorientation as in the dialogue example.
Original text introduction copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180-degree_rule

lundi 30 mai 2016

Potato chips - Go find better

Did you know what ingredients potato chips of TODAY have? It's a bit disgusting, but I tell you: don't eat too much! If you're sick, just don't eat it. It is making you fat and if you really eat it for a tons of years, everybody will say things like: "Oh hey! That's the fat Largo! He is the greatest fat pig!" and it is really not interesting at all when the situation is like this. Eating chips is joy but not that safe. You can go buy organic chips in organic food shops(for example: Santa Cruz, etc). The most bad chips companies on the world are, for example: Pringles, Cardinas, American Lays...(These chips are all made from mashed potato that factories puts non-safe food in it. You can go try the Taiwanese Lays that we could say it's safer and better, the chips are made of slices but not mashed potato, or even the organic chips.
I hope you've been attracted and will stop eating bad potato chips.

Here's an example for the difference of Pringles' Sour Cream and Onion between the U.K and the U.S. Red words(or ingredients are the bad things in this flavor of chips: