This thesis project from designer and technologist Frederic Brodbeck “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.”
This is gorgeous work and much more thoughtful than most similar projects, too. But frankly I’m a little weary of infographics being applied to ‘unexpected’ subject matter. Yes, it’s visually amusing to see beautiful abstractions of the mundane, but not everything needs to be reductively interpreted into its most simplistically brainy-looking form. The world is not a dashboard nor does it really benefit from being portrayed as one; it’s more interesting than that.
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