Cutting (2021) Evolution of the depiction of phonecalls in popular cinema. Projections zip file
Cutting (2021) Three filmmaking practices that guide our attention to popular cinema. Art & Perception zip file
Cutting & Armstrong (2019) Large-scale narrative events in popular cinema. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications zip file
Shot durations for 220 popular movies from 1915 to 2015. zip file
Instructions: The first column in each file is the first frame of each shot, the second is its duration. Each file also often contains other information which you can ask me about if interested.
Shot motion, shot luminance, and shot clutter in 220 movies from 1915 to 2015. zip file
Instructions: The third column has the shot motion (zero-order motion from the correlation of luminance values of pixels in next-adjacent frames), the fourth column has the mean of median luminance values in each frame across each shot, and the fifth column has the clutter calculations (from a Laplacian or Gaussian filter analysis).
Files typically contain many other columns. Again, ask me if you want more information.
Shot scale information and segmentation information for 24 movies from 1940 to 2010. zip file
Instructions:
Column five has the scale of the beginning of each shot. Column three has the segmentation results from three viewers of each movie.
Cabsablanca (1941). airport scene with Captain Renault, Ilsa, and Rick, 4 reaction shots. mp4
The Social Network (2010), hearing scene about dilution of stock shares, 9 reaction shots, 4 at the end. mp4
Meet Joe Black (1980), post-cafe flirtation scene with 12 reaction shots at the end. mp4
Three digit code: [L--] is for presence of a location change, [-C-] for presence of a character change, and [--T] for presence or absence of a time change. Thus the seven types of narrative shifts are: [LCT],[LC-],[L-T],[L--],[-CT],[-C-], and [--T]. [---] is a nonshift within a scene.
montage type [L-T] with dissolves: traveling west in Grapes of Wrath (1940). mp4 Hitchhiking West in Detour (1945) mp4
montage type [--T] with dissolves: life in The Blue Lagoon (1980). mp4
montage type [L--] with dissolves, followed by montage type [000] with dissolves: the opening of The Perfect Storm (2000). mp4
montage type [L--] without dissolves: opening sequence of Sound of Music (1965). mp4
montage type [LCT] without dissolves: the Layla sequence in Goodfellas (1990). mp4
sequence type [LC-]: the coding sequence in The Social Network (2010). mp4
sequence type [LCT]: Karen's-dead sequence in Ordinary People (1980). mp4
sequence type [L-T]: Opening credits of The Commuter (2018) mp4, plane reverie in Ordinary People (1980). mp4
sequence type [-C-]: a portion of the football game in MASH (1970). mp4
sequence type [L--]: Mombasa chase in Inception (2010). mp4
sequence type [--T]: credits and rock climbing in Mission: Impossible II (2000). mp4
sequence type [-LC]: gladiator training in Spartacus (1960). mp4
complex sequences: abutted montage types [L--]:[---] with dissolves: the opening of The Perfect Storm (2000). mp4; general [LC-] type, motorcycle chase meta-sequence from Mission: Impossible II (2000). mp4
Metz: parallel syntagma. Wealth and poverty, alternating [L--]. mp4
Metz: bracket syntagma. Party Scene from Ordinary People (1980) [LC-]. mp4
Metz: descriptive syntagma from the openning of Ordinary People (1980) [L--]. mp4
Metz: alternate syntagma. Tallwalker sequence from Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) [LC-] mp4
Metz: episodic sequence. Breakfasting scene from Citizen Kane (1941) [--T]. mp4
Metz: ordinary sequence. MAV dismantling in The Martian (2015) [--T]. mp4
unity of location, no commitment to time: Grand Central Station sequence in Koyaanisqatsi (1982) [L--]. mp4
continuity of time, not of location: Tallwalker sequence from Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) [LC-]. mp4; Train/car chase sequence from The French Connection (1971) [LC-] mp4
unity of characters, not location or time: Carl and Ellie sequence from Up (2009) [L-T]. mp4
no unity of location, characters, or time: training sequence from Rocky IV (1985) [LCT]. mp4
few changes in location without change in characters and time: except as in Jumper (2008) [L--]. mp4