Self-Tape Eye-Line Distance & Lens Focal Length Guide

Position your phone screen inches from your camera lens on a matte #090A0C background so your pupils stay engaged without wide-angle distortion.

TC 00:01:24:12|ARRI NIGHT SLATE // 3200K ZERO-SPILL

RAM-ONLY (DMCA SAFE)

STANDBY // ARMED ON FIRST LINE

AUDITION SIDES SOURCE

SELECT YOUR ROLE (ME)

LINE MEMORIZATION DRILL

PACING OFFSET BEAT+0.18s

-0.20s Overlap0.00s Instant+2.00s Dramatic

ANCHOR WINDOW

VU IN (-48 dBFS)-12 dB0 dB

INT. PRECINCT INTERROGATION ROOM - NIGHT

DETECTIVE MILLERREADER

(quietly)

You said the last commuter train left at nine.

ELENA VANCEME

ANCHOR: [from the platform]

I told your partner everything I remember from the platform.

DETECTIVE MILLERREADER

(sliding a photograph forward)

Not everything. Security cameras caught two passengers entering car four.

ELENA VANCEME

ANCHOR: [the second passenger]

(beat)

Then pull the manifest and ask the second passenger.

DETECTIVE MILLERREADER

We did. The ticket was purchased with your press credential.

ELENA VANCEME

ANCHOR: [badge before midnight]

(steady, locking eyes)

Then somebody inside this building cloned my badge before midnight.

LINE 1/6

IDEAL FOCAL EQUIVALENT 35mm to 50mm equivalent (avoid 13mm ultra-wide)

READER EYE-LINE OFFSET 3 to 5 inches left or right of the taking lens barrel

SCREEN BRIGHTNESS Use CueTape #090A0C night mode to prevent blue iris glare