Frederic Brodbeck's project, "Cinemetrics."

Cinemetrics: a movie’s audiovisual fingerprint.

  • August 3, 2011
Frederic Brodbeck's project, "Cinemetrics."

Frederic Brodbeck's project, "Cinemetrics."

By way of the Music of Sound blog, here’s a fascinating new way of seeing tons of information about how a movie looks and sounds, all at once: cinemetrics. In his own words, this was “Frederic Brodbeck‘s bachelor graduation project at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK), Den Haag.” His description:

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Cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side.

Seeing these images—basically really funky graphs—and reading about how they work and what they represent is incredibly fun. Frustratingly, all we seem to have access to is a minute-and-a-half demonstration video on Vimeo. We don’t seem to be able to use this incredible tool ourselves. I hope he gets right on that.