SHOULD YOU LOOK AT THE CAMERA?
👀 Most actors don’t realize how much their eyes are telling us on camera.
🎥 On-camera acting is basically eyeline strategy. Where you look shapes the entire story we think we’re watching.
👁️ Look into the lens and you’re breaking the fourth wall. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes disastrous.
🪰 Look just off the lens and suddenly we feel like a fly on the wall, watching you live instead of perform.
🙂↔️ Diagonals can be delicious… as long as it’s a choice, not an escape. Watch back and see if your eyes still connect.
⬇️ The one direction that almost never serves you? Down. It reads as hiding, not acting.
🎯 But when the story demands the camera (a press conference, a recording, a direct address), the lens becomes your scene partner.
🎸 And if you’re living your best pop/rock/R&B life, sometimes a true music video stare-down is exactly the world you want.
⚡ The question isn’t “Should I look at the camera?” It’s “What story am I asking my eyes to tell?”
