Blog 5

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Overhead view

 The movie “Pulp Fiction” is one of my favorite movies of all time. One big reason is because director Quentin Tarantino does a tremendous job with the dialogue of the characters but also the way he chooses and sets up each shot throughout the movie. I think that he did a great job directing the scene I chose because he followed every rule there is. There is the 180 degree rule which means the camera should not cross this imaginary 180 degree line for continuity purposes. There is the Rule of Thirds which means the screen is broken up into thirds and characters and objects that are important are placed in the intersections of the horizontal and vertical lines.. And there is the 30 Rule which are used to avoid a jump cut in which when changing camera positions move your camera at least 30 degrees or change the size of the image in your camera by at least 30 percent.

He starts off with John Travolta's character in the center of the shot to really have him stand out. Then he moves Travolta to one of the crosshairs of the Rule of Thirds. Samuel L. Jackson's character is put in the left crosshairs and the man on the chair is in the lower right crosshairs to show Jackson is in control of the situation. Tarantino breaks the 180 degree rule but since he moves the camera and establishes a new 180 degree line so it doesn't matter. Also Tarantino didn't really need to avoid any jump cuts so the 30 Rule does not really apply.

So overall Tarantino does not break any of the rules and utilizes everything to make a great scene. Tarantino is one of the best directors in Hollywood and obviously knows how to follow the rules and to generate any emotion he wants from the audience by setting up each shot in certain ways.