Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 11/7/05, Shel Belinkoff, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>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? > >I've been working in professional broadcast since 1979 and I have never >come across this concept before. Personally, I would say that's a load a >bollocks.
That's really odd. It has been taught in film schools since at least the 1970s. I know it still is at the Rochester Institute of technology, where film teachers I know are still working. This is filmmaking 101. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
