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[lsanderson]

Bringing New Understanding to the Director’s Cut
By NATALIE ANGIER
Published: March 1, 2010

And now, just in time for Oscar junkies, comes a new statistical mincing of the movies that may someday yield an award category of its own: best fit between a movie’s tempo and the natural rhythms of the brain. More

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[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Thanks-- I love this kind of stuff.

Occurs to me that movie frames also have spatial frequency, a fact alluded to somewhat vaguely, and somewhat irrelevantly, in the third paragraph. And they have color distribution. One could characterize a movie by a trajectory jumping around a multidimensional phase space of various axes. What could we learn about filmmaking, or even about human perception and storytelling, from analyzing such things?

It's easier post-DVD, when movies have already been converted into a big pile of numbers.