Point of view (POV) is a variation of eye-line match. The two are similar, in that a character looks offscreen and we see where he or she is looking. With POV, however, the audience is, in effect, looking through the character’s eye.
Who Are You!?! (0:23)
- Film:
- Branded to Kill, 1967
- Director:
- Seijun Suzuki
- Source:
- 1999 Criterion Collection
- Audio commentary by:
Richard Peña- This clip appears in:
- - Point of View
A director can also play with POV, making the audience first believe they are seeing something from a character’s perspective and then switching this perception. We see an example of playing with POV in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958).
First Sighting (1:30)
- Film:
- Vertigo, 1958
- Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Source:
- 1999 Universal
- Audio commentary by:
- Richard Peña
- This clip appears in:
- - Lighting
- Point of View