The 180 Rule insists that two characters in a scene or interview should stay on the same side of each other throughout the interview. Therefore there's an invisible line running between the subjects which the camera can not cross. The cameras must remain on one side of the line (which brings the name 180 rule because it is a 180 degree half circle that the cameras must remain in) so that the person on the left stays on the left and the person on the right stays on the right. It would be confusing to watch an interview with the people seeming to switch places whenever it cut to a different camera angle.
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