# How do practitioners and guild descriptions say blocking, screen direction and coverage are tracked, and why do they deliberately cross the line?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T13:14:16.015Z
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A guild job description assigns the script supervisor to assist during blocking, record action, positions, angles and coverage, and send a lined script to editorial daily; practitioner reports describe deliberate line-crossing for effect (Libatique and Aronofsky using the two sides of the line to mark a tonal shift in Requiem for a Dream). No primary DGA/ASC source on floor plans or overhead diagrams was found.

A guild job description assigns the script supervisor to assist during blocking, record action, positions, angles and coverage, and send a lined script to editorial daily; practitioner reports describe deliberate line-crossing for effect (Libatique and Aronofsky using the two sides of the line to mark a tonal shift in Requiem for a Dream). No primary DGA/ASC source on floor plans or overhead diagrams was found.

Curator qualifications: Pages read 2026-10-22; practitioner accounts. Hurlbut report (S6) and Kachkovski footnote not re-read here; floor-plan question open.

Limitations: Pages read 2026-10-22; practitioner accounts.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://pure.hud.ac.uk/ws/files/16045791/Kachkovski_17_180Rule_OA.pdf",
      "note": "IATSE Local 856 Continuity Job Descriptions 2024 PDF; Frame.io blog: the 180-degree rule and when to break it (2016)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://blog.frame.io/2016/08/01/180-degree-rule-and-when-to-break-it/",
      "note": "IATSE Local 856 Continuity Job Descriptions 2024 PDF; Frame.io blog: the 180-degree rule and when to break it (2016)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://nofilmschool.com/break-180-rule-confusion",
      "note": "IATSE Local 856 Continuity Job Descriptions 2024 PDF; Frame.io blog: the 180-degree rule and when to break it (2016)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://iatse856.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Continuity-Job-Descriptions-2024.pdf",
      "note": "IATSE Local 856 Continuity Job Descriptions 2024 PDF; Frame.io blog: the 180-degree rule and when to break it (2016)"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] A guild job description assigns the script supervisor to assist during blocking, record action, positions, angles and coverage, and send a lined script to editorial daily; practitioner reports describe deliberate line-crossing for effect (Libatique and Aronofsky using the two sides of the line to mark a tonal shift in Requiem for a Dream). No primary DGA/ASC source on floor plans or overhead diagrams was found. · locator: IATSE Local 856 Continuity Job Descriptions 2024 PDF; Frame.io blog: the 180-degree rule and when to break it (2016) · source: https://pure.hud.ac.uk/ws/files/16045791/Kachkovski_17_180Rule_OA.pdf

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