The main purpose of the rule is to establish the main direction of the actor or action in the shot. The 180- degree rule consists of a straight line which comes between a subject and an object or another person that they are interacting with. Or the line is going along a path that the subject is moving along. Furthermore the rule is to then keep other cameras within the 180 degree of one side of the straight line. This is so the shot maintains its continuity. Usually the scene starts with an establishing shot so that the audience have a vivid insight of what is happening in the scene which later determines the direction in which the shot will go. If the rule is broken the eye line match is no longer correct. The same applies to when there is an action taking place in the scene. For example if someone is walking and there are cameras on both sides of the line then it confuses the audience member by making it look as though the actor is walking in the wrong direction. However the 180- Degree Rule can be broken for dramatic effect and can imply that a character is disorientated and so the audience can connect with the character because of the way the shot is filmed.
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