Orientation of the look of a character onscreen; its direction orients the audience to something in the diegesis and enables to build spatial relationships within a scene
The kid orienting to the wardrobe indicates that the voice is coming from it in Bunuel’s “the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie”
Characteristics:
- Enable the audience to build spatial relationships within a scene and reconstruct mentally the events and their orientation
- Can mislead the audience in reconstructing something that does not exist in the diegesis through a false eyeline match
Related induced effect: Eyeline match; 180 degrees rule
(Colin, [2003?])