{"id":12565,"date":"2011-07-31T23:25:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T22:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=12565"},"modified":"2011-07-31T23:25:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T22:25:50","slug":"cinemetrics-movie-data-visuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/07\/31\/cinemetrics-movie-data-visuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinemetrics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Frederic Brodbeck<\/a> has created a fascinating project which measures data to reveal the visual characteristics of certain movies.<\/p>\n

As part of his bachelor graduation project at the Royal Academy of Arts<\/a> in The Hague<\/a>, he used software to break down the characteristics of particular films (e.g. editing, colour, speech, motion) and then turned this information into a moving graphic.<\/p>\n

He writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

…cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual \u201cfingerprint\u201d 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.\u00a0Being someone who really enjoys movies and cinema, I always notice little things about the style of a movie, so film and its characteristics were an interesting starting point for this project.<\/p>\n

Furthermore my thesis is about generative \/ computational design and what role writing code plays regarding new approaches in (graphic) design. It was clear that for my graduation project I would use the methods I described in the thesis and that it would involve a certain amount of programming in order to visualize data. However, today there are already a lot of information graphics using meta-data related to film and cinema (budget, box office data, awards won, relationship between characters etc.). That\u2019s why I wanted to use the movie itself as a source of data, to see what sort of information can be extracted from it, to find ways of visualizing it and to create the necessary tools to do this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This video is a neat introduction to the project:<\/p>\n