Watching “The Fire from Within” (1963) shot in comparison to the shot from Gossip Girl was such a huge difference. My first thoughts of the Fire from Within shot was that it would have been a nightmare to have filmed that shot. If they had complicated set ups it would have been crazy to film this. They would have to have reset the whole set about 4 or 5 times to achieve all the shots in this scene. Although I am not sure how complicated the set ups for shots in films were in the early 1960’s, could have been a lot easier to reset.

I decided to do more research about the 180-degree rule after watching this scene. Because as Robin wrote, it is a rule that is there to ensure that the audience doesn’t get disorientated. But in the fire from within shot, I don’t think it felt particularly disorientating? Or is this because I was concentrating on the shot too hard? Maybe if I had been watching the film just as entertainment, it would have confused me.

While researching why someone would purposefully break the rule I found a good point on this blog, https://indiafilmproject.co/blog/when-to-break-the-180-degree-rule/. It said that the breaking of this rule is to disorientate the viewer. Which makes a lot of sense! But I suppose it needs to be used in the correct context then. For example, the correct context would not be in that scene of gossip girl we watched. Although I don’t know the context of the scene in Fire from within, this may or may not have been the tactic in this context.

I read another section of this blog suggesting that in the scene provided of an interrogation between the Joker and Batman was to indicate the battle in power between the two characters.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=81&v=V8B6oqs1VSM&feature=emb_logo) I really liked the way in which this shot was covered! I found it so interesting to watch. I think even if the directors intention wasn’t to show their power changing between the two characters, I think it would have been easy to break the 180 rule in this situation anyway because the two characters look so drastically different that it shouldn’t confuse the audience too much anyway.

I didn’t have enough people to star in my scene, so I decided to story board it out to the best of my ability. I apologise that my drawing isn’t the strongest, but I attempted to label it to the best of my ability. In this scene I tried to convey the distress in Barney.

I also finished this exercise then realised I possibly used too many perspectives. But I would say the mid shot counts as one, all the close ups of their faces count as one, then the pan up from Barney’s phone counts as one and one of Barney’s hands. Although, I still probably should have cut out a few of these perspectives.