title: Scanning eye movements made when viewing film: preliminary observations.
abstract: Eye movements were recorded in 10 adult subjects during the viewing of fiction and nonfiction films. Individual differences in scan paths for fiction films were found to be relatively small. Generally, eyes concentrated on the screen center when looking at characters and objects in rapid motion. Scan paths through the screen were observed in special cases, for example, in the case of a dialogue between two characters. No differences emerged in scan paths for the same clip presented in black-and-white and color versions. Results are relevant for both filmmaking and research on perceptual and cognitive strategies involved in processing motion pictures.
authors.affiliation: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tosi
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mecacci
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pasquali
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009040:Motion Pictures; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*