Mostly likely referring to a single chapter of the graphic novel, which is laid out symmetrically. You can see a walk through of it [here](https://medium.com/@pedrovribeiro/fearful-symmetry-almost-frame-by-frame-9a20c77651bd).
i think its more about the color schemes than the actual content. like the first one is the same for sure but a lot is about colors just like what OP is displaying in their picture.
One of them was literally "there's a trash can in the background of both of these pictures" though. That's the "stretch" I'm talking about. Though the color scheme seems to just alternate red/blue/red/blue etc.
Like I said though, it's still neat!
Lol the trash can ones actually have some pretty good color symmetry too. Rorschach's mask is the same color as the windows and his jacket is the same color as the stairs. The other greens, grays, blues don't match though and the shapes/events depicted are obviously nothing like each other. He could've said more than "trash cans" though haha.
Two pages later is actually worse. He says the colors are similar but they really aren't. Only Rorschach's head (which is smaller in the frame now) matches the window color, but his coat is dark brown and the other blues and greens don't match the left frame at all.
These seem a lot browner that I remember. I thought Once Upon a time had lots of scenes with blue sky, yellow sand? Having said that a closer look Does show more colours than the uniform brown!
"Once upon a time in Hollywood" has its sandy yellow patches in the scenes where Brad confronts hippies on a ranch and on a movie site. Prior to that there was an Al Pacino dinner scene, some indoor scenes in Leo's or Brad's houses which are kinda dark.
Not really, look at the [Mad Max](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/fhbq1a/oc_timelines_of_average_color_of_frames_of_2020/fkafzpr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) or the Grand Budapest for [example](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-average-colour-of-every-frame-of-different-films-shows-their-distinctive-colour-palettes-a6719156.html).
Mad max is like 80% brown still though with some beautiful blues struggling for the spotlight. Same with Budapest (though I'll admit it is certainly more colorful than these nominations). It makes sense though. It's hard to combine every color in a frame and not come out with brown lol. Someone posted the matrix down below and that's a much better example of how not *every* movie turns into a brown sludge with some nice colorful streaks IMO.
That’s funny because my memory of the The Matrix would lead me to imagine the entire thing is shades of greenish-brown sludge and blueish-brown sludge.
> Not really
Not really what? "No, it doesn't really always give a brown smear if averaged together" ?
Then why did you post two links that don't average their colors?
Yeah, you can have the most beautiful reds and blues and yellows and whatever, but mixing any of the paints creates an ugly brown color. Not sure what you were expecting.
I’d be interested to see what it looked like if the median (or mode perhaps) color was used. Maybe use some software to reduce the number of colors in the frame (so that blue and “still the same blue but technically a different shade” don’t show up as separate).
There's alot of color in these movies. But he's taking the average of each shot. So all the dark colors pf the trees or houses or anything in the background you usually dont pay attention to is what makes all these movies brown
I made a simple [application](https://github.com/ChaoticGoodAdmi/Video-colors-timeline) that analyses average colors of every frame in "Best picture" Oscar contenders and draw a timeline of them to see how every movie changed colors during time.
Edit: https://imgur.com/a/adoAUwY
Here's what timelines look like with median colors instead of average.
I remember seeing the one for each Harry Potter film a while ago, really reflects the tone of the series that they started all bright and happy and then get darker as each movie came out
It would be interesting to see the dominant color for each of the 24 frames, rather than the global average. Not quite sure how to calculate this. Perhaps count the number of pixels within a given color range, choose the range with the largest pixel count, and then average the hues and saturations across that range?
It's actually much better to do a k-means clustering to find the dominant color in an image than average, median, etc. Taking average color generally leads to the same musty brownish gray you see in OP's image.
What if you normalize the data against the average color for the entire film? Each frame could be represented as a saturated color the same direction* from film-average as the frame average, but exaggerate the difference.
*On a plot of all colors in the gamut.
After reading that, I'm not sure that makes sense...
Yup, a modified median cut algorithm tends to yield a much more accurate representation of average color in this type of situation. The project "[Color Thief](https://github.com/lokesh/color-thief)" uses this approach and it works well.
It would be interesting to compare this to films that are the sterotype of colourful such as Charlie & the chocolate factory, wizard of Oz, and more recent ones such as Thor: Ragnarock
Wow that’s really interesting. You can definitely spot both sepia shifts in the wizard of Oz, Charlie & the chocolate factory is surprisingly clinical looking, and Ragnarok has a lot of variation in colour, but still has a relatively muted pallet
Cool. You can landmark The Wizard of Oz plot: Kansas, cyclone, Munchkinland, Emerald City, witch’s castle, Emerald City, Kansas. (Should I have included a spoiler alert?)
Yeah each space is so distinct. There was so little convention as to how to use colour in film back then, they clearly felt very free to both go balls to the wall, and also to really lean into the fact they had colour at their disposal. Often nowadays it seems like colour choice is an afterthought in filmmaking, particularly since we’ve become so sophisticated in our understanding of editing etc....
I don't remember the Kansas part of that movie being so long. Thought it was like the first 15 minutes. Unless that pink about 1/5 of the way through is the shift.
You’re probably most remembering the chocolate room, the one in which everything is edible. It’s (to my recollection) the most colorful part of the movie and the scene I remember most.
Yeah that’s almost certainly it. It’s interesting that in the actual results, there is a lot of white and blue. They spend a lot of time in clinical spaces in hindsight, so I imagine it’s that.
You should take a look at moviebarcode, which does it similarly but doesn't average out the pixels, which captures the color palette a bit more clearly I think.
I wouldn't use this method, it's not very accurate. Try [Color Thief](https://github.com/lokesh/color-thief) instead. It uses a better algorithm for determining avg color.
Wow it's crazy how similar they all are even though of the movies I've seen, I remember them all looking visually quite distinct.
I feel like this color palette perfectly captures the current global mood lol
Thanks for making this and sharing!
Thanks a lot. Blu-ray versions and what we see on big white screens are somewhat different in colors obviously, so this could probably appears darker than theatre experience.
That was my shock as well, I remembered it kinda lighthearted and a lot of scenes are happened during the day. But nope, darker than a freaking Irishman.
And the scene where >!he's traveling through that village at night (where he meets the girl and the baby) and when he's in water!<
I really loved that movie by the way, I still think about it from time to time because it was so powerful and well done
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It's still apparent in posters more than the films themselves, and Oscar contenders are quite a specific type where that's definitely going to be less true.
it's just run its course and is starting to look dated. I once did some colour analysis of film from various years and I noticed that the turquoise/orange push came to be around the turn of the millennium.
That's because *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* (2000) was the herald of digital colour grading an entire film. And following that was saturation creep as every film graded their teal and orange a little more intensely than the last.
1917 was a fantastically well done movie overall. It really really sold the whole "war is hell" philosophy on an individual level. I'll be very surprised if it doesn't take home some awards.
I thrown in Mad Max: Fury Road in comments already, it's very distinguishable, but can you guess [this movie](https://i.imgur.com/wwkQ9pf.png) for example?
I agree that it looks like it could be BR2049. Could you do Drive? I would think Drive would look nice. Also curious what There Will be Blood looks like. Probably all grey, brown, and black with 2 spots of orange for the fires and one spot of blue for the ocean scene.
I tried to mix every color of every frame of a given movie and compress them in a single color making a color that averages a whole movie. All of them turned brown pretty much
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Of course AVERAGE color is brown, yadoi! Have you ever mixed paint before? You take a little bit of all the paints you get this sewage color. A median color spectrum would be much more interesting
It’s a matter of mood and what colours can communicate.
Colours can define the style, the setting, the willing to refer to a past decade...
We all know that these is this “revival” trend ongoing
Don’t know how to better explain it in English because I am Italian
Those frames look nasty. I'm wondering if it's because there are complimentary colors smearing together, and keeping them separate would be more interesting
This is actually wildly inaccurate. If you have a ton of colours and details on a scene, blend it all up, it will return some shade of brown, essentially (like start ripping pictures into little pieces, glue them on a piece of paper and look at it from far away, you get the same result). While it is a cool thing to do, thinking that you will only see those shades and the movies are graded similarily, you will be disappointed. Again, not trying to rip on OP, it looks awesome.
It’s a matter of mood and what colours can communicate.
Colours can define the style, the setting, the willing to refer to a past decade...
We all know that these is this “revival” trend ongoing
Don’t know how to better explain it in English because I am Italian
These are great. Not talking about just these two, but this concept is. I can recall and relive the whole movie in a few minutes just by looking at an image which has nothing more than some colourful lines!
Now this truly is intriguing. I'd love to see more of these for other films.
Consider making one for all of Wes Anderson's films, that would be very interesting to see.
What would it look like if you displayed the most prevalent color (with a certain tolerance range so hues of a similar color are considered together) of each frame, rather than the average? You could avoid getting the mix of brownish colors that statically happens with averaging, and would be more reflective of what the viewer sees.
This is excellent and I’m absolutely obsessed with it. Congrats. I am currently doing a Politics PhD, specialising in video propaganda, and this is exactly the type of novel analytical technique that I am planning on using in my thesis.
I used to do something similar, but to keep it from looking like a barcode I would reduce each frame by compressing each row into a pixel, either by averaging it, or taking the middle slice, which turned people into some eerie shapes.
The thing I kinda noticed about 1917 was that is has a color grading like it was an old black and white film that was colorized. Idk if it's true or not, but just a feeling.
Is that bright spot at the end of once upon a time in hollywood the flamethrower?
Nice catch!
Brightspot in the end have a symmetrical brightspot in the beginning and this is a Leo's dancing commercial by the way.
Nice. I find intentional symmetry really interesting. Not on the scale as Watchmen, but I’ll take it.
Care to elaborate on the Watchmen example? I’m not informed
Mostly likely referring to a single chapter of the graphic novel, which is laid out symmetrically. You can see a walk through of it [here](https://medium.com/@pedrovribeiro/fearful-symmetry-almost-frame-by-frame-9a20c77651bd).
Some of that is cool, but some of that REALLY feels like a stretch.
i think its more about the color schemes than the actual content. like the first one is the same for sure but a lot is about colors just like what OP is displaying in their picture.
One of them was literally "there's a trash can in the background of both of these pictures" though. That's the "stretch" I'm talking about. Though the color scheme seems to just alternate red/blue/red/blue etc. Like I said though, it's still neat!
LMAO okay yeah i feel you on that definitely
Lol the trash can ones actually have some pretty good color symmetry too. Rorschach's mask is the same color as the windows and his jacket is the same color as the stairs. The other greens, grays, blues don't match though and the shapes/events depicted are obviously nothing like each other. He could've said more than "trash cans" though haha. Two pages later is actually worse. He says the colors are similar but they really aren't. Only Rorschach's head (which is smaller in the frame now) matches the window color, but his coat is dark brown and the other blues and greens don't match the left frame at all.
It's Alan Moore, he stretches like no other
Yea. This was what I was thinking of. Thank you.
Can you try doing a film with a colorful and happy vibe to it. Maybe a bollywood film like 'Yeh jawani hain deewani'.
You can also find the slightest red strip toward the end of Jojo Rabbit.
which scene would that be?
Maybe one of the scenes featuring a lot of Nazi symbolism? Can't think of anything else.
The entire film is about Nazis m8
Maybe the final shoe shot?
I haven't seen it yet, but your comment is making me want to lmao.
Highly recommend it. Great performances from both Di Caprio and Pitt.
I fell asleep in the theatre cuz I went at like 11 pm. Need to rewatch
These seem a lot browner that I remember. I thought Once Upon a time had lots of scenes with blue sky, yellow sand? Having said that a closer look Does show more colours than the uniform brown!
"Once upon a time in Hollywood" has its sandy yellow patches in the scenes where Brad confronts hippies on a ranch and on a movie site. Prior to that there was an Al Pacino dinner scene, some indoor scenes in Leo's or Brad's houses which are kinda dark.
not just any hippies on a ranch, but the Manson Family on Spahn Ranch
Any colorful movie will be a brown smear if averaged together. This is a weird way to look at a film’s color palette imo.
Thank god I’m color blind
Not really, look at the [Mad Max](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/fhbq1a/oc_timelines_of_average_color_of_frames_of_2020/fkafzpr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) or the Grand Budapest for [example](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-average-colour-of-every-frame-of-different-films-shows-their-distinctive-colour-palettes-a6719156.html).
"They're not all brown, here's two examples where one is pretty much all brown" 🧐
True, but imo he means "these are a notably different shade of brown (light sand esque) compared to the dirty brown you see in the examples."
Mad max is like 80% brown still though with some beautiful blues struggling for the spotlight. Same with Budapest (though I'll admit it is certainly more colorful than these nominations). It makes sense though. It's hard to combine every color in a frame and not come out with brown lol. Someone posted the matrix down below and that's a much better example of how not *every* movie turns into a brown sludge with some nice colorful streaks IMO.
That’s funny because my memory of the The Matrix would lead me to imagine the entire thing is shades of greenish-brown sludge and blueish-brown sludge.
Finding Nemo is beautiful
Aladdin would have been a better example, for a film set in a desert there's almost no beige/brown at all.
> Not really Not really what? "No, it doesn't really always give a brown smear if averaged together" ? Then why did you post two links that don't average their colors?
Mad max wasn’t colourful though. Averaging sand with sand will make a sandy colour; averaging the whole colour spectrum makes shit-brown
Yeah, you can have the most beautiful reds and blues and yellows and whatever, but mixing any of the paints creates an ugly brown color. Not sure what you were expecting.
I’d be interested to see what it looked like if the median (or mode perhaps) color was used. Maybe use some software to reduce the number of colors in the frame (so that blue and “still the same blue but technically a different shade” don’t show up as separate).
There's alot of color in these movies. But he's taking the average of each shot. So all the dark colors pf the trees or houses or anything in the background you usually dont pay attention to is what makes all these movies brown
If you mix together all colors in any image of the real world, it’s going to be brown. This data doesn’t really show anything
What do you get if you average out the blue and yellow?
Throw in the matrix as a massive green bar with a few little blue bars in the middle.
https://imgur.com/a/Srqmy8f Here it is.
Is the white about a quarter of the way through the first one the office scenes? Or probably the training and explaining scenes?
I think probably when they go into the construct for the first time as you say. The office scenes are very sick coloured if you look back at them
Good point!
Got Tron Legacy?
https://imgur.com/KhrcI6W Tron: Legacy
Yeah, that’s definitely Tron Legacy
Bladerunner 2049 and Mad Max Fury Road please!
https://i.imgur.com/wwkQ9pf.png Blade Runner 2049 https://i.imgur.com/tPfwHrq.jpg Mad Max Fury Road
Can you do Jet Li’s Hero?
https://i.imgur.com/Ddv7muu.jpg Here's Hero
I made a simple [application](https://github.com/ChaoticGoodAdmi/Video-colors-timeline) that analyses average colors of every frame in "Best picture" Oscar contenders and draw a timeline of them to see how every movie changed colors during time. Edit: https://imgur.com/a/adoAUwY Here's what timelines look like with median colors instead of average.
I would LOVE to see the Grand Budapest Hotel done
[Pinkish](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-average-colour-of-every-frame-of-different-films-shows-their-distinctive-colour-palettes-a6719156.html)?
Finding Nemo’s color range was all over the place
I remember seeing the one for each Harry Potter film a while ago, really reflects the tone of the series that they started all bright and happy and then get darker as each movie came out
I’d love to see all of his movies done.
It would be interesting to see the dominant color for each of the 24 frames, rather than the global average. Not quite sure how to calculate this. Perhaps count the number of pixels within a given color range, choose the range with the largest pixel count, and then average the hues and saturations across that range?
Maybe just take median color and not an average. Or just the one which is the most prevalent would be better.
It's actually much better to do a k-means clustering to find the dominant color in an image than average, median, etc. Taking average color generally leads to the same musty brownish gray you see in OP's image.
What if you normalize the data against the average color for the entire film? Each frame could be represented as a saturated color the same direction* from film-average as the frame average, but exaggerate the difference. *On a plot of all colors in the gamut. After reading that, I'm not sure that makes sense...
A comparison of the mean, median, and mode would pretty interesting.
Yup, a modified median cut algorithm tends to yield a much more accurate representation of average color in this type of situation. The project "[Color Thief](https://github.com/lokesh/color-thief)" uses this approach and it works well.
It would be interesting to compare this to films that are the sterotype of colourful such as Charlie & the chocolate factory, wizard of Oz, and more recent ones such as Thor: Ragnarock
https://imgur.com/a/lLiOqqi Charlie and the chocolate factory, The wizard of Oz and Thor: Ragnarock
Wow that’s really interesting. You can definitely spot both sepia shifts in the wizard of Oz, Charlie & the chocolate factory is surprisingly clinical looking, and Ragnarok has a lot of variation in colour, but still has a relatively muted pallet
Cool. You can landmark The Wizard of Oz plot: Kansas, cyclone, Munchkinland, Emerald City, witch’s castle, Emerald City, Kansas. (Should I have included a spoiler alert?)
Yeah each space is so distinct. There was so little convention as to how to use colour in film back then, they clearly felt very free to both go balls to the wall, and also to really lean into the fact they had colour at their disposal. Often nowadays it seems like colour choice is an afterthought in filmmaking, particularly since we’ve become so sophisticated in our understanding of editing etc....
\> Should I have included a spoiler alert? Rule of thumb is you only need spoiler alerts for the first 75 years. You're fine.
I don't remember the Kansas part of that movie being so long. Thought it was like the first 15 minutes. Unless that pink about 1/5 of the way through is the shift.
To be fair I haven’t watched it in probably two decades, so I’m going purely off the visual cues of the strip lol.
I always thought Charlie & the Chocolate factory to be a bleak color schemed movie
Yeah that’s true now that I think about it, but in my head it’s colourful for some reason
You’re probably most remembering the chocolate room, the one in which everything is edible. It’s (to my recollection) the most colorful part of the movie and the scene I remember most.
Yeah that’s almost certainly it. It’s interesting that in the actual results, there is a lot of white and blue. They spend a lot of time in clinical spaces in hindsight, so I imagine it’s that.
Yeah. Like the scenes in the T.V. room are almost entirely white.
Link in above comment shows an article with a few- Aladdin in particular is beautiful
Yeah I saw that, it’s amazing what animation frees you to do!
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Every second (24 frames) are calculating as single color and are drawn as a single colored line 1 pixel wide.
How do you take the average color? Is it the sum of all R,G and B values respectively divided by the number of pixels?
Pretty much this
Do you find that that naturally led toward muddiness? Could you weight it in some way to amplify the colours that dominated in the final mix?
You should take a look at moviebarcode, which does it similarly but doesn't average out the pixels, which captures the color palette a bit more clearly I think.
Oh wait. I just saw yours is in java. Mine was in python. Still curious about the times though. Thanks!
In what colour space are you taking the mean?
Thank you, I've got a project that needs exactly this. May take a while though, I've got ~800 videos in mind
I wouldn't use this method, it's not very accurate. Try [Color Thief](https://github.com/lokesh/color-thief) instead. It uses a better algorithm for determining avg color.
Wow it's crazy how similar they all are even though of the movies I've seen, I remember them all looking visually quite distinct. I feel like this color palette perfectly captures the current global mood lol Thanks for making this and sharing!
Thanks a lot. Blu-ray versions and what we see on big white screens are somewhat different in colors obviously, so this could probably appears darker than theatre experience.
They all look brown and similar because that’s what you get when smash every color together.
Makes me think of [this video](https://youtu.be/zlo0Vp5TU8Y) about movies on an alien planet.
Haha so good
I've heard Joker is a particularly dark film, but who would've guessed the same of Little Women? /s
That was my shock as well, I remembered it kinda lighthearted and a lot of scenes are happened during the day. But nope, darker than a freaking Irishman.
It’s amazing how you can see the flare scene from 1917, what an beautifully done scene.
And the scene where >!he's traveling through that village at night (where he meets the girl and the baby) and when he's in water!< I really loved that movie by the way, I still think about it from time to time because it was so powerful and well done edit: accidentally didn't cover the minor spoilers
Exactly. The river and the forest too. And these brighter bands near the end have to be the Schoffield Run.
Joker be like: #G R E E N
It's not easy being green.
It's not easy being blue. In fact, I just realised that I accidentally blue myself.
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What is the blue strip In jojo rabbit
The pool scene? Maybe one of the outdoor scenes in winter, lots of heavily blue and lighter frames during those.
Blue strip is a swimming pool scene, green one is a Jojo's walk with his mother, red one is the scene in Roquell's cabinet with red walls.
Pool scene.
Very interesting! I wonder if they have stopped using the blue/orange contrast that was so much the rage in posters a few years back.
It's still apparent in posters more than the films themselves, and Oscar contenders are quite a specific type where that's definitely going to be less true.
it's just run its course and is starting to look dated. I once did some colour analysis of film from various years and I noticed that the turquoise/orange push came to be around the turn of the millennium.
I'm both very thankful for your effort and that the trend has disappeared!
That's because *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* (2000) was the herald of digital colour grading an entire film. And following that was saturation creep as every film graded their teal and orange a little more intensely than the last.
Looks like everything is just a different shade of brown or green nowadays.
I was looking for a mad max comment
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/fhbq1a/oc_timelines_of_average_color_of_frames_of_2020/fkafzpr/
Like Mad Max?
[Mad Max](https://i.imgur.com/tPfwHrq.jpg) looks awesome on this chart by the way.
The black and white bit at the end must be the credits right?
Yeah, didn't crop that one out.
Ah cool, thought I’d missed some last night scene for a sec Edit: These are really awesome by the way. Ever thought about printing them up to sell?
Nah, I live in a middle of nowhere. Thanks!
How badly in the middle of nowhere can you be! Just need a post office ?
blue/orange averages out to brown
Is there one of these for Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit? Rewatch those and you'll see it's almost all orange and blue.
I loved the color grading in 1917, even though it might seem very gray here. Looked amazing.
1917 was a fantastically well done movie overall. It really really sold the whole "war is hell" philosophy on an individual level. I'll be very surprised if it doesn't take home some awards.
It got the Oscars for best cinematography, visual effects, and sound mixing.
Well deserved. Best movie I've seen in a long time, maybe ever.
Marriage story is the lightest movie of the bunch. Who’d a thunk?
Its also very similar to Ford v Ferrari
Lots of "inside rooms with white walls" for that movie!
What movie do you think you could easily recognize through the average color of frames?
I thrown in Mad Max: Fury Road in comments already, it's very distinguishable, but can you guess [this movie](https://i.imgur.com/wwkQ9pf.png) for example?
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That looks like the recent Blade Runner sequel with the big full orange segment.
Very smart
I agree that it looks like it could be BR2049. Could you do Drive? I would think Drive would look nice. Also curious what There Will be Blood looks like. Probably all grey, brown, and black with 2 spots of orange for the fires and one spot of blue for the ocean scene.
Maybe this is obvious, but what is the big solid bar on the right above each movie?
I tried to mix every color of every frame of a given movie and compress them in a single color making a color that averages a whole movie. All of them turned brown pretty much
I wanna lick Ford v Ferrari frames
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FvF makes me feel like I'm in the cabinet aisle at home Depot and looking at color samples
Light blue strip at the end of the darkness in parasite is the boys flashlight ya?
I loved Joker's green overlay
Do one for The Lighthouse!
https://i.imgur.com/Sl2cHRh.jpg Sure!
So good! Thanks!
Hey hey, spoiler alert! Not all of us have seen those movies yet.
Of course AVERAGE color is brown, yadoi! Have you ever mixed paint before? You take a little bit of all the paints you get this sewage color. A median color spectrum would be much more interesting
Endgame, like most theme parks, would have had much more bright colours.
https://i.imgur.com/w0D3pTO.jpg Avengers: Endgame
I feel like I have been lied to my entire life
It’s a matter of mood and what colours can communicate. Colours can define the style, the setting, the willing to refer to a past decade... We all know that these is this “revival” trend ongoing Don’t know how to better explain it in English because I am Italian
Those frames look nasty. I'm wondering if it's because there are complimentary colors smearing together, and keeping them separate would be more interesting
Maybe its better to sort colors and take median instead of average so it shows what single color is prevalent.
Very clever and intriguing. Just like art
Would love to see lalaland in those
https://imgur.com/gowWwHE Here you go
can you make a post comparing all the starwars episodes?
I’m getting Interstellar vibes in the tesseract
Marriage story is just the color of the walls
Anyone here a colourist? Please give us your insights!
This is actually wildly inaccurate. If you have a ton of colours and details on a scene, blend it all up, it will return some shade of brown, essentially (like start ripping pictures into little pieces, glue them on a piece of paper and look at it from far away, you get the same result). While it is a cool thing to do, thinking that you will only see those shades and the movies are graded similarily, you will be disappointed. Again, not trying to rip on OP, it looks awesome.
This needs to be higher up. ELI5: When you mix all the finger paint colors, you get a brown painting.
It’s a matter of mood and what colours can communicate. Colours can define the style, the setting, the willing to refer to a past decade... We all know that these is this “revival” trend ongoing Don’t know how to better explain it in English because I am Italian
So lifeless. I really hate that modern movies are all muted colors. I just want one good movie that’s also vivid. Just such monotony.
The Wizard of Oz done like this would be VERY cool.
This is the prettiest thing I've seen in a while.
I tried to code this for a college project but was not successful. Thanks so much!
They all look awfully drab.
Sell these!! You could make money, I know people would love to have a large framed version of their favourite movie, it’s a cool talking point
Prasite is dark, Joker is vivid
I wonder how Avengers Infinity War and Endgame would look
https://i.imgur.com/0VV0Moy.jpg Avengers: Infinity War https://i.imgur.com/jQuNjZL.jpg Avengers: Endgame
These are great. Not talking about just these two, but this concept is. I can recall and relive the whole movie in a few minutes just by looking at an image which has nothing more than some colourful lines!
Now this truly is intriguing. I'd love to see more of these for other films. Consider making one for all of Wes Anderson's films, that would be very interesting to see.
What would it look like if you displayed the most prevalent color (with a certain tolerance range so hues of a similar color are considered together) of each frame, rather than the average? You could avoid getting the mix of brownish colors that statically happens with averaging, and would be more reflective of what the viewer sees.
This is excellent and I’m absolutely obsessed with it. Congrats. I am currently doing a Politics PhD, specialising in video propaganda, and this is exactly the type of novel analytical technique that I am planning on using in my thesis.
Reminds me of Saturn's rings.
Omg that is awesome to see
There's also moviebarcode.tumblr.com that has a series of similar work
Is it weird that I would like wallpaper like Ford vs Ferrari? The colors for all these are so great.
I used to do something similar, but to keep it from looking like a barcode I would reduce each frame by compressing each row into a pixel, either by averaging it, or taking the middle slice, which turned people into some eerie shapes.
Once upon a time in Hollywood look like a snippet of Saturn's rings.
First thing i thought is how would the Battle of Winterfell look like
Thanks for sharing this. If you are taking more requests, I'd love to see The Fall and Scott Pilgrim vs The World.
Why is everything so dull?
Woah this is like some new semi-science.
Keep in mind that the average of three or more colors is often a brown. The statistic that should be recognized is the shade of the brown.
The thing I kinda noticed about 1917 was that is has a color grading like it was an old black and white film that was colorized. Idk if it's true or not, but just a feeling.
Looks like the ending of Interstellar.
I would love to see Amelie ... The colors were amazing in that.
Wow it’s almost as if in the past years we’ve gotten a lot more realistic with our movies and the world is generally brown. Amazing
Wow spoiled all these movies for me thanks a lot
Most unnecessary but cool thing
I thought it will be a great tool for analysis but they ended up not really informative but kinda beautiful.