In
film and
video, the frame is the
screen. Film-makers talk about creating the frame, which is the process of deciding where everything in the
shot will go on the
screen. For example, if there is a
person looking
left in the frame, then they should be on the
right hand side of the frame - looking into the frame. (Of course, there are always
exceptions to this
rule - in this case, if the
person who we are talking about has turned their back on another
character, then they would be on the
left hand side of the frame - looking out of the frame)
Another '
rule' about
framing a
shot is the rule of
thirds. If you imagine the screen (I am thinking of a 1:1.333
ratio screen here - like a non-
widescreen TV) split into thirds
vertically, and thirds
horizontally, a person's eyes should be on one of the
horizontal thirds. If there is one person in the frame, then the framing is more comfortable if they are on one of the
horizontal thirds too. Again, as before, this is not a hard and fast
rule, and is regularly
broken, but it is certainly something to keep in mind when first starting out making
films or
videos (although you'll find it comes naturally, without thinking about it, after a while)
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NYCadAdept: I believe that film runs at 24 fps all over the world - it certainly does over here in UK (otherwise they would have to make completely new film stock for outside US and Japan)