sabertoothwalrus:

sabertoothwalrus:

sabertoothwalrus:

I know it’s really petty but if someone is doing a tiktok bit where they’re portraying multiple characters and they break the 180 rule I go absolutely feral

It’s the rule that if there are two characters in a scene— be it a movie, comic, tiktok, etc— there’s an invisible plane that the characters are on that the camera should only ever be on one side of.

aka, Character A should always be on the left side and Character B should always be on the right side.

It’s something that a lot of people understand intuitively without ever formally learning it, but it also means a lot of people aren’t really learning it.

WAIT YES THAT’S A PERFECT EXAMPLE

here, the 180 rule is broken intentionally for comedic effect! Even to someone that’s never Learned the rule, the change is jarring enough that’s it’s really obvious they switch sides (which is good because it’s the punchline)