Shot/reverse shot

For the 2013 song, see Shot Reverse Shot (song).
Shot/countershot in Greed (1924)

Shot/reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character (a reverse shot or countershot). Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.[1][2]

  1. ^ Film Studies Program (2002). "Editing guide". Yale University. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
  2. ^ Staff of "Hamlet on the Ramparts" Project. "Film lexicon". MIT. Retrieved 2016-07-30.