Serious Time #64 Left or Right?

This article explained a theory that has been in discussion for a while but never proven until now. The theory is that left to right movement on screen conveys positive feelings and emotions while right to left movement conveys a more negative emotion to the viewers. This was proven by showing a bunch of people 8 shots of a film from left to right then from right to left the response was what early directors like Hitchcock and such believed in that left to right is positive while right to left is more negative. This also apply's to if one thing is on one side of the screen, left equals bad right equals good. An example of this would be Gollum from The Lord of The Rings. The only question now is when you film will it be left or right?

I really enjoyed this article it was pretty interesting. I never knew about this until now and think it's very interesting when noticed in film. In my opinion the right to left just looks really wierd and awkward in most situations that they showed which I guess was the point, but I feel like films have done right to left that I have seen before and I never felt that way. I just think the idea and the overall way that it is used is very interesting and unique. I didn't really dislike anything from this article and it was also very straight forward. This article pertained to the film aspect of Digital Media. Overall very good article.