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Have Films Become More Visually Intense?

Published: 18 April 2019 Publication History

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The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that motion pictures today are more visually intense than those of the past. We compute the visual intensity for a sample of 550 films over the last 100 years. Our results show that, on average, recent movies are 2.5 times as visually intense as those from the Golden Age of Hollywood. We also observed a substantial increase in all genres of film. Finally, we propose a simple five-point rating system for visual intensity as a guide for viewers.

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[1]
American Film Institute. America's Greatest Movies, http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/movies400.pdf.
[2]
Internet Movie Database. https://www.imdb.com.
[3]
M. Martin and M. Porter. 1988. Video Movie Guide 1989, New York: Ballentine Books.
[4]
Open Source Computer Vision Library. https://opencv-java-tutorials-readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html.
[5]
R. Sedgewick and K. Wayne. 2017. Introduction to Programming in Java (2nd ed.) Boston: Addison-Wesley.

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    ACMSE '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Southeast Conference
    April 2019
    295 pages
    ISBN:9781450362511
    DOI:10.1145/3299815
    • Conference Chair:
    • Dan Lo,
    • Program Chair:
    • Donghyun Kim,
    • Publications Chair:
    • Eric Gamess
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    Published: 18 April 2019

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    1. Image processing
    2. media computing
    3. video

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    April 18 - 20, 2019
    GA, Kennesaw, USA

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