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> The average shot length of English language films has declined from about 12 seconds in 1930 to about 2.5 seconds today https://www.wired.com/2014/09/cinema-
by olah_1 4y ago
> The average shot length of English language films has declined from about 12 seconds in 1930 to about 2.5 seconds today
https://www.wired.com/2014/09/cinema-is-evolving/ https://www.wired.com/2014/09/cinema-is-evolving/
- 30944836 4y agoI think it's much shorter now, that article is almost 8 years old. With the ubiquity of digital cinema, I suspect the average shot length is 1.x seconds.
- muwtyhg 4y agoWhat movies are these? An average shot length of less than 2 seconds sounds like it would give me a massive headache.
- 30944836 4y agoHere's a list I stole from Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-films-have-the-lowest-average-shot-length-ASL https://www.quora.com/What-films-have-the-lowest-average-sho... ASL 1.55 - Doomsday (2008) : 4052 shots over 105 minutes ASL 1.72 - Transporter 3 (2008) : 3360 shots over 96 minutes ASL 1.73 - Domino (2005) : 4046 shots over 116 minutes ASL 1.83 - Quantum of Solace (2008) : 3198 shots over 98 minutes ASL 1.84 - Crank: High Voltage (2009) : 2718 shots over 84 minutes ASL 1.92 - Transporter 2 (2005) : 2524 shots over 81 minutes ASL 2.01 - Band of Ninja (1967) : 3424 shots over 114 minutes ASL 2.01 - Moulin Rouge! (2001) : 3594 shots over 120 minutes ASL 2.03 - Gamer (2009) : 2502 shots over 84 minutes ASL 2.03 - The 6th Day (2000) : 3418 shots over 116 minutes ASL 2.08 - Hot Fuzz (2007) : 3304 shots over 115 minutes ASL 2.10 - Dark City (1998) : 2982 shots over 104 minutes ASL 2.15 - Armageddon (1998) : 4025 shots over 145 minutes ASL 2.17 - The Transporter (2002) : 2420 shots over 87 minutes ASL 2.17 - The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) : 2910 shots over 105 minutes
- rchaud 4y agoWho knew that random passersby on Sunset Blvd that got pulled into a Hollywood film screen test had this much power?
- bigDinosaur 4y agoI'd expect that some films, at least, have an uneven distribution of cuts. Action scenes will have more cuts than non-action scenes etc. Still, it's interesting to watch these films with the shot length in mind, it can definitely be unnecessarily frenetic.
- ochoseis 4y agoThe article kind of says this, but I suspect the process of editing films and composing shots has gotten easier over the years as the industry has refined tooling and techniques. Not just CGI, but the ability to arrange and view scenes is probably much more fluid today than it used to be. This also seems like something where incremental editing improvements lead to incremental changes in shot duration.