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The mathematics of the Hollywood blockbuster
Feb 19, 2010
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Film-makers have got better and better at constructing shots so that their lengths grab our attention,” says James Cutting, a psychologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He analysed 150 Hollywood movies and found that the more recent they were, the more closely their shot lengths tended to follow a mathematical pattern that also describes human attention spans.
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I think filmmakers would laugh at this. It’s true of course, that shots have progressively become shorter. But were...
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I particularly love “Star Wars Episode III (pictured), however, which he describes as “just dreadful”, adheres rigidly...
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I wish covered this kind of stuff when I was in film school, then my B.S. in Cinema, Photography and Media Arts would be...
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