Blog Assignment #6: Fight Club In Pictures

Over Head Photo

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The 180 degree rule definitely applies to this scene in Fight Club. Marla and The Narrator are always the perfect space away, as you can tell in the overhead shot especially. When Marla starts the scene yelling at the Narrator, the degree is kept when it then cuts to her cleaning his face off. Then as the buildings outside begin to explode the space is kept even though it is a completely different camera shot. Basically this scene is shot with the 180 degree rule in mind.

The rule of thirds is also used. If you see how the window they're staring out is split into tinier sections of the window. This gives the desired effect of energy and interest the rule of thirds is suppose to give off. The window using this rule makes the buildings exploding in the background have more impact and lots more meaning. It helps express the explosions better than simply one large window exploding. 

This scene only really used the 30 rule when the characters interacted at the beginning. They moved enough between their two faces to make the desired effect of the 30 rule. However, this technique was not used at all after. This is because they used the same shot from then on, of the buildings exploding through the window.

The director used all of these rules and obviously used them to his advantage. Especially the rule of thirds with the window that looked out into the sea of exploding buildings. This made the scene stronger visually, thus can be felt more emotionally. He also really used the 180 degree rule well. The characters interaction was perfect and the distance was very well measured and it all felt so smooth. It's because he followed these guidelines and rules correctly, that the end of this movie was as strong as it the potential was.