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Eyeline

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Eyeline is where a character is looking relative to camera. Mismatched eyelines on a storyboard cannot intercut. Lock screen direction before you polish drawings.

Eyeline is where the subject is looking, relative to the camera. If A looks camera-left at B, B must look camera-right at A, on the same side of the 180-degree line. Mismatched eyelines cannot be cut together. The board has to show this before anyone lights.

Longer craft note: continuity and eyelines.

How to draw it so a crew sees it

  • Put a small arrow or a noted “looks camera L / R” in the footer
  • Keep the same look across every size of that setup
  • When you add an insert, decide whose POV it is

Generators and eyelines

First-pass generators routinely flip looks because they have no geometry. That is a human pass, not a prompt. What AI storyboard generators get wrong.

Related: coverage, over the shoulder.

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