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eyeline match

(Last edited: Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 5:41 PM)

a cut obeying the axis of action principle, in which the first shot shows a person looking off in one direction and the following shot shows a nearby space containing what he or she sees. If the person looks left, the following shot should imply that the looker is off-screen right.