The term 'shot length' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used in film and photography to refer to the length of a shot in terms of time it is held in the frame. For example: "The shot length of this scene is 45 seconds."
"We'd ask, given that you've seen one shot with length X, how predictable is the shot length of the next shot?" Dr. Cutting said.
2.2 Kulasekara to Gayle, FOUR, shot!, length ball just wide of off stump, Gayle defends so firmly that it's punched back past the bowler and beats the fielding restrictions for four!
Kulasekara to Gayle, FOUR, shot!, length ball just wide of off stump, Gayle defends so firmly that it's punched back past the bowler and beats the fielding restrictions for four!
Shot lengths varied enormously, as well, from the frenetically paced "Quantum of Solace," with an average shot length of 1.7 seconds, to some of the older movies where shots occasionally linger a minute or more.
Although this shift to the first person lasts for about six seconds, a standard shot length in contemporary movies, it feels longer because you're abruptly removed from the visual and aural chaos.
"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".
Dr. Cutting emphasized that there was much more to a movie than shot lengths and shot clusters.
Critics of the association, including many filmmakers interviewed by Kirby Dick in his 2006 documentary, "This Film is Not Yet Rated," accuse the ratings board of being more tolerant of violence than of sex, less tolerant of homosexuality than heterosexuality, and perversely fixated on shot lengths, camera angles and other technical matters that barely register with ordinary viewers.
The features extracted are the average, the longest, and the shortest shot lengths.
See the eight blogposts in the section entitled "Shot lengths and psychology: Has attention to do with it?" at http://www.cinemetrics.lv/articles.php.php
Figure 2 sequences contain a variety of minor problems that had a large cumulative impact on MOS, such as motion blur, analog noise, camera wobble, poor scene composition, long shot lengths (e.g., no scene cuts), a boring topic, or an uninteresting presentation (e.g., the action in vqegHD5 src2 would be more exciting if seen from a closer zoom).
