Eyeline match

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, there will then be a cut to the object or person at which he is looking. For example, a man is looking off-screen to his left, and then the film cuts to a television that he is watching. [citation|title=Television: Critical Methods and Applications |author=Jeremy G Butler|year= 2001|publisher=Lawrence Erlbaum Associates|url= http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0805842098&id=LwEmNHNyPOUC&pg=RA2-PA157&lpg=RA2-PA157&ots=f9hN-iVbaU&dq=%22Eyeline+match%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=n_V5dMNWmCCkb7-9-5bIb3a_G_k|id=ISBN 0805842098]

Alfred Hitchcock used this procedé throughout "Rear Window" because of the fact that the center location was used as a look-out by James Stewart in this classic movie. The whole film is based on the main character looking at something, followed by an eyeline match of what he's looking at.

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