19Mar/100
Hollywood edits tend to follow a formula in cadence
Fascinating little piece here; excerpt:
Psychologist Professor James Cutting and his team from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analyzed 150 high-grossing Hollywood films released from 1935 to 2005 and discovered the shot lengths in the more recent movies followed the same mathematical pattern that describes the human attention span.
They found that the magnitude of the waves [created by a Fourier transform of the data] increased as their frequency decreased, a pattern known as pink noise, or 1/f fluctuation. (More…)
I guess this means that the editors know their audience.
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