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Film-makers have got better and better at constructing shots so that their lengths grab our attention,” says James Cutting, a psychologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He analysed 150 Hollywood movies and found that the more recent they were, the more closely their shot lengths tended to follow a mathematical pattern that also describes human attention spans.

For the FULL article visit
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527483.900-solved-the-mathematics-of-the-hollywood-blockbuster.html

and

http://www.austinkleon.com/2006/01/20/mathematical-storytelling/

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    proofmathisbeautiful:austinkleon: Film-makers have got better and better at constructing shots so that their lengths...
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    New Scientist: “Solved: The mathematics of the Hollywood blockbuster” by Ewen Callaway, Feb. 18, 2010Professional...
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    Your step-by-step to making the next blockbuster:
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    I think filmmakers would laugh at this. It’s true of course, that shots have progressively become shorter. But were...
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    I particularly love “Star Wars Episode III (pictured), however, which he describes as “just dreadful”, adheres rigidly...
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    I wish covered this kind of stuff when I was in film school, then my B.S. in Cinema, Photography and Media Arts would be...
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