Movie Map

Revision as of 12:52, 14 November 2008

So a movie is a series of moving pictures.

Pictures are tones and colours. (sometimes just tones)

Answer: yes, yes we can.

How?

Encode the movie to 1fps at a low resolution (32x18), then tile the frames to an image. (60frames wide for easy to conceptualise "1 minute per row")

Issues to Note

Copyright

The resultant image is a fraction of a percent of the original movie visual data. And no audio data. It is ludicrous to think that such a small percentage of content (equivalent to no more than a couple of frames of screengrab) would be copyright infringement.

Audio

There is no audio - though a pitch adjusted speedup up the entire movie audio (reduce to, say, one minute, or perhaps by a factor of 60) could be interesting as a side project also.

Final image size

Several meg for the 32pixel rendering. I also render a 16pixel width version (that is: 16px wide per frame), and then that is reduced again by half for the 8px width versions seen here.

Results

Cube

This movie is set in a series of rooms, identical except for colouring. This makes for not only an excellent movie map, but the resulting map is a useful tool to analyse colour usage within the movie!

O' Brother, Where Art Thou

With distinct colourisation throughout the movie, this map is similarly distinctive. The Blue at the end is very notable

Pleasantville

I had hoped the gradual introduction of colour within the movie would be evident within the moviemap. This was not the case though, and the map was quite drab.

Tron

Very colourful, but not coherently so (ie, unlike Cube or Oh' Brother). Alot of electric-blue look showed through.

Planned

Matrix Trilogy

• not yet mapped, I hope to see evidence of the red/green colourisation between the real world and the matrix

Star Wars trilogy

• not yet mapped, but the trilogy set many key planetside scenes in very defined areas which should show up well. (Ice battle, desert battle, forest chase, etc)