Everyone involved in the making of a good film needs to follow certain basic steps in order to be sure the story being told is captured properly. One important step to understand and to avoid is crossing the 180 degree or stage line. Here, the producer uses a film-within-a-film style, the setting of a U.S. Civil War surrender, and a tongue-in-cheek editing "angel" to stop a fight between the writer and the director to deliver a fun lesson in camera placement, camera movement, actor blocking, cutaways, and 4 tricks to avoiding jump cuts.

Originally released by Chip Taylor Communications, 2011. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on October 12, 2014.

Stageline Awareness (3:34); --Avoiding Jump Cuts (5:56); -- Stageline Review (3:14); .