#cinemetrics

Visualizing Inception

by Hang Do Thi Duc

StoryAlity#127 – The Science of Cinema (@ Wired.com)

In case you missed it, there some great consilient articles on The Science of Cinema by Greg Miller (although, not that Greg Miller, of Miller’s Compendium of Timeless Tools For The Modern Writer fame — but, yet another famous Greg Miller) in WIRED.com:

The backstory: In 2014 at the AMPAS (i.e., the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the place that hands out The Oscars, where that…

StoryAlity #71B – CineMetrics

CineMetrics

So, Gunars Civjans (and Yuri Tsivian) created CineMetrics, a software tool for tabulating and analyzing ASL (or: Average Shot Length) in Movies.

CineMetrics

Visit the CineMetrics site to find out much more, including Barry Salt’s database.

See also the CineMetrics database of collated films to date.

Barry Salt, and David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson – and many others – have also…

cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side.