Feb 7, 2015 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Volume 25
Abstract This essay puts eye tracking studies of cinema into contact with film theory, or what I term film-philosophy, so as to distinguish film theory from specifically cognitive film theory. Looking at the concept of attention, the essay explains how winning and...
Feb 7, 2015 | Animation, Digital Media/Internet, Film, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 25
Abstract As we progress into the digital age, text is experiencing a resurgence and reshaping as blogging, tweeting and phone messaging establish new textual forms and frameworks. At the same time, an intrusive layer of text, obviously added in post, has started to...
Feb 7, 2015 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Sound, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 25
Abstract This article provides an overview of eye tracking studies on subtitling (also known as captioning), and makes recommendations for future cognitive research in the field of audiovisual translation (AVT). We find that most studies in the field that have been...
Feb 6, 2015 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Volume 25
Abstract Using eye tracking as a method to analyse how four subjects respond to the opening Omaha Beach landing scene in Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998), this article draws on insights from cinema studies about the types of aesthetic techniques that may...
Feb 6, 2015 | Animation, Digital Media/Internet, Film, Volume 25
Abstract In this article, three researchers from a large cross-disciplinary team reflect on their individual experiences of a pilot study in the field of eye tracking and the moving image. The study – now concluded – employed a montage sequence from the Pixar film Up...
Feb 6, 2015 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Uncategorized, Volume 25
Abstract Movies often present a rich encapsulation of the diversity of complex visual information and other sensory qualities and affordances that are part of the worlds we inhabit. Yet we still know little about either the physiological or experiential elements of...
