Filmic guideline dictating that reciprocating characters in the same scene always need to have the same spatial relationship to each other.
Characteristics:
- Convention of the continuity editing method
- Dictates the offscreen space axis
- Non continuous filmic design tend not to follow this rule to the point (Ozu’s filmic architecture for instance)
Related effects: Character glance
Related inductor effect: Continuity editing
(bordwell, 2009)