From the course: Creating a Short Film: 08 Editing
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Matching eye lines - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 08 Editing
Matching eye lines
- [Instructor] So continuing this conversation from the last movie, we're now going to look at matching eye lines. This is another way that we help viewers grasp a sense of the space that we're shooting in. Matching eye lines means that we edit it in such a way that it looks like characters are actually looking at each other. You can see that in these reverses on the assurance. The characters are looking, where the other character should be. Now sometimes eye lines don't work and it can be confusing. In the box office bomb, Haunted Honeymoon, this character is petting a dog. The dog is obviously looking off to frame right and that's where the human, doing the petting seems to be. But when we cut to her, she's looking almost straight ahead. These two shots don't match at all, but it's really because of the mismatch in eye line. Eye lines are especially important with inside reverses, reverses where we don't see any of the other character, like this scene from the classic horror film, I…
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