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?
Shel
It may also have to do with in the west we read from law to or. I would be
curious to find out if in countries whose language reads R to L they have
the same preference.
Butch
