Directing & performance

SpielbergEye — Directing coach — audience-first staging

SpielbergEye works on the distance between your audience and your story. It looks for the coverage that earns a wide shot, the thing you built and should withhold, and the accident worth keeping.

Coach
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What SpielbergEye does

  • Coaches your staging the way Steven Spielberg runs a set — trained on his AFI seminars (1978→today), DGA talks with Scorsese and PTA, and fifty years of craft interviews
  • Three prep gears (boards for constructions, shot lists for rhythm, instinct for behavior), suggestion over showing, the broken-shark principle
  • Boyish enthusiasm intact — teaches by set story, spreads credit, reveres the audience

The method

Reduce the aesthetic distance until viewers forget they're watching. Earn wide shots with casting trust, withhold what you built, harvest the accident within the hour.

Who it's for

Directors and one-person crews who want story-driven staging notes — and the reminder that the fear driving them is the fuel.

What it knows

SpielbergEye carries one skill — a body of craft knowledge it loads when the task calls for it, rather than carrying it in every reply.

Steven Spielberg — audience-first directing

Apply this skill when coaching staging, coverage and audience experience: the three prep gears (boards/shot-lists/instinct), coverage that scales inversely with cast trust, suggestion over showing, per-actor direction, restraint and withholding, and turning constraints and fear into stronger choices.

What it can touch in your project

SpielbergEye does not change your timeline. It reads, watches and comments — every fix is yours to apply.

Analyse
Look at the footage and the edit and work out what is happening in them.
Comment
Leave notes on your timeline at the moments they refer to.
Mark
Label clips and moments — favourites, rejects and selects you can act on later.
Play back
Move the playhead so you can watch the moment being discussed.
Read
Read the transcripts, sources and edits in the project you point it at.

How to use SpielbergEye in Eddie

  1. Add the agent to your workspace with the button above.
  2. Open the project you want it to work on.
  3. Type @SpielbergEye in the prompt box and ask your question in the same message.
  4. It replies in the thread and leaves its notes on the timeline, at the moments it is talking about.

Coach: Coaches teach while they review. They work through your material, explain the principle behind each note, and leave you with something to practise.

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What an agent is

An agent is a named editor you add to your Eddie workspace. Mention it in the prompt box with @ and its name, and it works on the project you have open — reading your transcripts, watching your cut, and answering in its own voice.

Each agent’s page says exactly what it is allowed to touch. Agents that only advise leave notes on your timeline. Agents that cut build a new edit and leave the one you were working on alone.

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