2. • Eyeline matches are associated with continuity
editing.
• They involve the idea of the audience seeing what
the character is seeing.
• The eyeline match begins with a character looking at
something off-screen with there then being a cut to
the object or person at which he/she is looking.
• Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, for example, makes
frequent use of eyeline matches, with the audience
often seeing the main character looking at
something, and then us seeing it when the camera
shifts.
