What is the difference between a POV shot, a glance shot plus object shot (sight link) and an eyeline match, and how do I classify a shot pair?
Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S1, S3 rest on the producer's pinned reading. Cumming, Greenberg, Kaiser and Kelly (Ergo, open access, 2021) separate two film conventions for showing that a character sees: POV (one shot whose camera view is read as the character's) and sight link (a glance shot followed or preceded by an object shot of what is looked at). They say the two can occur independently, and describe eyeline match as a further mirrored-camera-setup rule. Branigan, in a published German translation of his 1984 book chapter, instead treats the POV shot as a subcategory of the eyeline match, so the vocabulary differs between sources and should be pinned before use.
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- [sourced_fact] Cumming, Greenberg, Kaiser and Kelly (Ergo, open access, 2021) separate two film conventions for showing that a character sees: POV (one shot whose camera view is read as the character's) and sight link (a glance shot followed or preceded by an object shot of what is looked at). They say the two can occur independently, and describe eyeline match as a further mirrored-camera-setup rule. Branigan, in a published German translation of his 1984 book chapter, instead treats the POV shot as a subcategory of the eyeline match, so the vocabulary differs between sources and should be pinned before use. · locator: Ergo JATS, sight-link definition; Ergo landing page (live) source
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