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Encyclopedia > Eyeline match

An eyeline match is a popular editing technique associated with the continuity editing system. It is based on the premise that the audience will want to see what the character on-screen is seeing. The eyeline match begins with a character looking at something off-screen, then there will then be a cut to the object or person that they are looking at. For example, a man is looking off-screen to his left, and then the film cuts to a television that he is watching. Continuity editing is the predominant style of film editing practiced by most Hollywood editors. ...

Continuity editing topics
Establishing shot | Shot reverse shot | 180 degree rule | Eyeline match |
30 degree rule | Cutting on action | Cutaway | Insert | Cross-cutting

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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.
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