Brain Manipulation

This article opens with a description of an intense scene from Iron man 2 to hook readers and get their attention. It then explains the point of speaking of this scene-which would be the experiment that took place. Both filmmakers and scientists are gathered, each sharing their knowledge of this particular subject. Where will the eyes travel? For filmmakers, they used their intuition and experience with audience reactions. They explain how they calculate what they can fake and what must be realistic. Two factors that must be always real to catch the audience's attention and for their brain to "stitch" together what's going; physics and faces. Faces-explains Jon Favreau-are just too hard to copy no matter what you use. The same is with physics. On the other hand, Scientists used experiments and analysis of the information they've gathered. They collected data on 75 people, using a camera to track their eye movement while software created frame-by-frame heat map. When this was looked at, Smith noticed that the red spot closely followed the movement of the eyes. It was found that people paid most attention to the action within the scene(the dueling and the cars bouncing).

I don't find this too interesting as myself, but as both a student learning how to take photographs and as an artist, it helps me get a better understanding of how to draw the eyes to and/or away from certain areas within a photograph or a video. Though, one of the rules in photography(rules of thirds) has already helped me understand how to do something similar to stimulate the viewers. I was able to take only small bits from this and connect it with other rules I've learned.