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Riddle testified that Watkins told her that he shot Adams after she had made an obscene gesture, but Caudill said the pattern of shots and other evidence contradicted that account.
And it's not a pattern of shots or a habit of framing but the inner life of the filmmaker as it is not shown but conjured; it's everything that's implied but not there, or, as Godard called it in "Hélas pour moi," "seeing the invisible".
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"Roughly since 1960," Dr. Cutting said, "filmmakers have been converging on a pattern of shot length that forces the reorientation of attention in the same way we do it naturally".
It presents the mean pattern of shot durations across the 100 duration-normalized time bins for the 180 movies.
The middle panel of Fig. 2 shows the pattern of shot durations from the middle chronological group of 60 sound films.
However, the pattern of shot durations and luminance with intertitles and motion without intertitles showed statistically reliable polynomial fits, but these failed cross-validation.
In other words, the pattern of shot durations in movies from 1960 to 1985 is generally similar, but not identical, to those from 1990 to 2015.
As shown in the right panel of Fig. 2, the pattern of shot durations for the 60 most contemporary movies essentially mimics that for the larger collection of all sound movies.
Of course, the underlying assumption is that, somehow, film editors and likely other filmmakers tacitly have in mind the ideal of a fractal-like pattern of shot durations for the whole film.
Applied to movies, Rao's notion would be that pace might be reflected in the temporal pattern of shot durations and in the energy reflected in a measure of motion – both part of Griffith's (1926) and Pearlman's (2009) analyses – but also reflected in measures relevant to emotion, the aspect of film extolled most by Tan (1996) and by Murch (2001).
The fluctuating patterns of shot durations in movies released over the past century are approaching a fractal pattern.
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