What is the 180° Rule?

The 180-degree rule of shooting and editing keeps the camera on one side of the action. As a matter of convention, the camera stays on one side of the axis of action throughout a scene; this keeps characters grounded compositionally on a particular side of the screen or frame, and keeps them looking at one another when only one character is seen onscreen at a time. It is referred to as a rule because the camera, when shooting two actors, must not cross over the axis of action; if it does, it risks giving the impression that the actors' positions in the scene have been reversed.

Aladdin Film Noir Photoshoot

We got into our costumes and we started experimenting with the lighting to make them moody and melodramatic and in Noir style. After we took the pictures we started editing and playing around with the effects on photoshop and on the cameras. These were the results:

Research & Planning. Aladdin Film Noir Style

We were asked to pick a movie and adapt the plot and characters to represent that of a Film Noir. Me and Lilly chose to adapt the Disney animated movie  'Aladdin'. The adapted characters are:

Anti-Hero/Protagonist: Aladdin
Redemptive women: Jasmine
Femme Fatale: Jafar (Female Version)

The basic plot is:

Aladdin has previously been placed in jail for thievery. His sentence is over and he plans to turn over a new leaf and move away from stealing. Unfortunately, he becomes enchanted by the sorceress Jafar who seduces him and convinces him back into a life of crime. The redemptive woman Jasmine attempts and success in saving Aladdin from being arrested and jailed once more and they fall in love and live together happily for ever and ever

I will be playing Jasmine and Lilly will be playing the female Jafar. We made rough sketches of the costumes the characters will be in.