01 UNDERSTAND SHOT FLOW
A big part of camera and staging is shot flow: to connect a sequence of shots seamlessly and to direct the audience attention from one shot to the next. A contrast in size of subject, change of lenses and camera angle between shots can help with a smoother cut. To direct the audience focus, you need to pay attention to eye fix and eye line. Eye fix is where your centres of focus between two consecutive shots are relatively in the same region of frame. Eye line is where your character is looking in one shot, which can create an implied line and direct where the audience should be looking in the next shot.