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Basic Glossary of Film Terms (3118 words) |
 | Eyeline matching is part of the same visual logic: the first shot shows a character looking at something off-screen, the second shot shows what is being looked at. |
 | In other words, eyeline matching is based on the belief in mainstream cinema that when a character looks into off-screen space the spectator expects to see what he or she is looking at. |
 | This "stabilising" is true in the other primary use of the eyeline match which is the shot/reverse angle shot, also known as the reverse angle shot, commonly used in close-up dialogue scenes. |
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 | However, my collaborator Kristin Thompson doesn't fully agree with me! She believes that eyeline matches are best defined as cuts that show what a character is looking at but not from her or his POV. |
 | Whether the eyeline match is the most effective way of >>establishing this relationship is another question altogether. |
 | However, FA also states that in the case of the eyeline >>>>match, "in neither (A and B) shot are both looker and object present. |