EYELINE MATCH

By Loran, Hannah and Jacob

An eyeline match is a film editing technique commonly associated with continuity editing.

Eyeline refers to the path of the looking eye and is similar to the shot reverse shot.

It is based on the audience wanting to view what the character on screen is viewing, the camera starts on the character looking at something the audience cannot see the camera then cuts to the object they are looking at. An example of this is in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, the main character is confined to his apartment and often looks out of the rear window and so eyeline match’s are frequently used to show the focus of his gaze’s outside.