THE RULE OF THIRDS

By Leo, Max and Ptolemy

What is the Rule of Thirds?

• It is a convention used in film and photography to space out main points an draw the viewer's eye to the main focus. A set of nine boxes are placed as thirds, and the point the photographer/cameraman wants you to focus on will be on one of these lines.

• In the photos shown, a box has been put in to show the thirds. The main point of focus has been put on the intersection between one of the horizontal lines and another vertical line. This is often how it is shown.

Even professionals use this technique as seen in the Transformers 3 snapshot below...From the biggest to the smallest every self respecting director, photographer and cameraman has used it, to make the eye been drawn to the important things. This is important as the lady is on an intersection of some grid lines while Optimus Prime, Leader of the Autobots, Hero to Earth, is at the intersection of some more lines, focusing the viewer’s eyes to the conversation

We used the rule of thirds to highlight the figures and lined the bodies up with two of the ‘Rule of Thirds’ lines. This drew attention to the two people in the picture.