Actually I never hear of that left to right stuff. I have hear that if it
reverses direction it indicates returning, or in the case of two or more object
it indicates a pending confrontation. However, I have seen lots of major motion
pictures that violated those rules.
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Mark Roberts wrote:
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.
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