Storyboard Imitation

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 I used the clip from blog 3 which was from the movie Source Code. The director follows the 180 degree rule because he never jumps the line. For the parts when he is on the train, the camera is always in front of him. When we move to the scenes where the woman is at the military headquarters the camera is always behind her or to her side. If it is in front of her it is because she turns around. The camera never breaks the 180 degree rule in these scenes either. The director doesn’t break the rule of thirds either. All the important things fall on these invisible horizontal and vertical lines. The different ways his body is positioned in different shots shows me that the director made sure the main elements lined up on these invisible lines. The same thing happens when we go to the senses of the woman in the military headquarters. They make sure the box window that you can see his body through is on the lines. She is one the lines as well. They make sure her face and lower half are on one of the points. The director also follows the 30 degree/30 percent rule. The director moves the camera a lot through the different scenes. There is a few shots that doesn’t move the full 30 degree, but most of his shots do. In the start of the scene he is barely on camera. As the camera moves, more and more of his body shows up on scene. This shows us that he does follow the 30 degree rule. Another example is when they move the camera to a side shot. This is showing us that not only does he follow the 180 degree rule because he doesn’t cross the like, he also follows the 30 degree rule. The director seemed to follow all the rules. As I was watching the clip I did not notice him break any of the rules.