Left or Right?

I found this particular article rather interesting and it stood out to me as I could easily relate it back to our own footage. The article discusses how the direction your actors move across the screen affect the outcome and how your audience perceives what is about to happen.

 

 

This footage was shown to a group of participants who responded that watching the actor go from the right side of the screen to the left made them have more negative feelings than the footage in which the lateral movement went from left to right. The article said that our brains have been programmed to think this way as our culture views left to right movement as an indicator or progress. It is still not officially determined as to why we think this way but the study from Cleveland State University aims to figure it out scientifically.

The reason that I could relate this back to our own footage was that the shots in which we were walking from right to left, the 'demon' would appear on screen. The beginning shots which shows us walking from left to right give a false sense of protection and independence, which changes to vulnerability when our movement is in the opposite direction.