CINEMETRICS

Tools for analyzing, visualizing, and comparing formal characteristics of movies

Year
2011 – 2021
Tech
JavaScript, Python, Java, GLSL, OpenCV, Processing, THREE.js, React
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CINEMETRICS gathers and analyzes video data, in order to reveal the formal characteristics of films and to visualize them as “fingerprints”. Information such as the editing structure, color, and motion are extracted, analyzed, and transformed into animated graphical representations, so that movies can be seen as a whole, and compared side by side.

Since videos are a time-based medium, they can only be seen one frame at a time. That’s why it’s challenging to capture and display them in their entirety. With its graphical fingerprints, CINEMETRICS allows you to put two or more movies next to each other and immediately see the similarities and / or differences. For instance:

  • Original vs. remake
  • Movies of the same genre / series
  • Different epochs of film-making
  • Movies by one particular director

Read more about the experiments that preceded CINEMETRICS. 

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