Graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Shel Belinkoff wrote: >> A few months ago I was talking with a film maker, and she mentioned that >> showing a subject moving from left to right on the screen indicates >> movement towards something, such as when a ship leaves a port and heads out >> to sea it will be shown on the screen as moving L to R. Right to Left >> means that the subject is returning home, or to a point of origin. Some >> time after that, while watching a special feature on a DVD, the director of >> the film made the same comment. I wonder if that may in any way be related >> to why we see, and, perhaps, generally prefer, L to R movement, and >> subjects looking L to R, in many photographs? Might there be something >> within us that more readily accepts that idea, and that's why film makers >> have been using the concept as well? >> >Or it may be just that film producers have conditioned us that way?
Not film producers, book publishers - from Gutenberg* onward :) In western cultures, reading from left to right is ingrained on most of us from a very early age and it affects perception in a wide variety of areas. * This a joke: I realize that the left-to-right convention existed long before that! -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
