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Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012

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Re: Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012

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Post by thaumaturgy »

gradstudent wrote: post #6
ekianjo wrote: post #3

More red/yellow before, more blue/violet in recent history. Cool data set, but the question is "so what?".

Well, it's interesting to see that Teal and Orange filters are used just as prominently in promotional material as in the films themselves. It's a terrible trend and annoying as hell. See here for more: http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/teal-and-orange...

Huh. I'm fairly color-blind, so I can't see the orange (or teal) tones that he's complaining about. However, I have noticed that more films lately seem to have more detail, and everything just "looks better" to me.

I've read that some amount of color-blindness is context sensitive (e.g. http://www.designmatrix.com/pl/cyberpl/cic.html); I bet that the increased contrast in these films is part of what's making them so much more visually appealing to me.

Re: Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012

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Post by shiftb »

JacobIrwin wrote: post #16

I'm curious about the distribution of ink costs (by color) during the same timespan - just how close that correlation is.

This is the question I was going to ask. I've heard that the reason most superheroe's costumes are primary colors is because it was less expensive to print them for the comics. I wonder if a similar effect is happening here?

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Post by styts »

alister wrote: post #13

I am awe-struck with what people with a passion manage to get done "in a couple weeks" just for fun. I can't imagine that I could have hired someone to do the same analysis, research, programming, scripting, graphics creation, and web site layout for anything less than tens of thousands of dollars. (Or is my intuition wrong about that?)

Nowhere does he say that he spent all of the 2 weeks working on this entirely. My guess would be that he did a 2-day sprint to hack the prototype and a bit more to polish it across the 2 weeks. Point is - he would not bill 2 working weeks were it a contracting gig. But then again, where'd you get such a motivated contractor (cf. working on own project)?

Re: Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012

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Post by carpo »

fritzvd wrote: post #2

Wasn't this here before? It's still cool though :)

I thought that too, but then after reading it I remembered a previous post about the distribution of colours within actual movies, not movie posters. So perhaps that is what you remember too?

Re: Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012

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Post by alister »

styts wrote: post #25
alister wrote: post #13

I am awe-struck with what people with a passion manage to get done "in a couple weeks" just for fun. I can't imagine that I could have hired someone to do the same analysis, research, programming, scripting, graphics creation, and web site layout for anything less than tens of thousands of dollars. (Or is my intuition wrong about that?)

Nowhere does he say that he spent all of the 2 weeks working on this entirely. My guess would be that he did a 2-day sprint to hack the prototype and a bit more to polish it across the 2 weeks. Point is - he would not bill 2 working weeks were it a contracting gig. But then again, where'd you get such a motivated contractor (cf. working on own project)?

If he did it in a 2-day sprint, that makes it even more amazing -- which was my point. It seems unlikely to me that I could find someone to do the same quality of work as a contracting gig (whether it took 2 days or 2 months) and charge less than tens of thousands of dollars.
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