Eyeline Match视线匹配

Revealing what a character sees, building suspense, before a POV shot.

shot 1, the character looks up toward frame right, expression shifting from puzzled to shocked; shot 2, low angle from the character's position looking up and to the right, revealing [what they see].

The technique comes first, followed by the scene, action, performance and duration. Paste it straight into a video model and swap in your own characters and plot.

Shot one, close: the delivery rider hears a car horn in the distance and snaps his head up toward the top right of the frame, his expression turning from dejected to surprised, 3 seconds. Shot two, from where he stands, looking slightly up and to the right: a truck with its headlights on slowly comes down the ramp from an overpass, the headlights lighting up the light snow, 3 seconds.

• The character looks left, but the object appears on the right in the next shot.
• Mismatched vertical angles: he's looking down but you get a low-angle shot.
• Looking for too short a time, so the audience misses the eyeline.

Spell out the gaze direction in the first shot (upper left, lower right); match the second shot's camera angle to that gaze.