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Eyeline, framing, and the phone-in-hand look

Lesson 7 of 12 in Talking-Head Ads Without Hiring Anyone · 7 min

The creator should look just off-lens, the way someone does when they are talking to a phone held slightly below eye level. Frame chest-up with headroom to spare so captions have somewhere to go. Dead-centre and dead-on is the corporate look and it kills the format.

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