Another problem during filming... - Laura

Breaking the 180 degree rule when filming can often leave the audience feeling confused or disorientating. Soemtimes fimmakers do this purposefully to acheive this affect on the audience, however this can sometimes happen by accident. When editing the third flashback, we realised that we broke the 180 degree rule during the reverse shot showing the dialogue between Sam and Amy. We positioned the camera on the wrong side of Sam. Luckily there was a way we could change this without having to reshoot. When editing we could use the effect 'Flop' (under 'Video filters'...'Perspective') which turned the screen around. This meant Amy was on the right side, however it did result in a continuity error of Meg's (playing Amy) fringe being on the wrong side from the previous shots. However we would rather that this subtle error than breaking the 180 degree rule.