Fig. 2

Waveforms for six dimensions of movies – a shot duration, b motion, c sound amplitude, d luminance, e clutter, and f shot scale – taken from the first 512 shots in six movies. The first and waveforms like it are the focus of Studies 1, 2, and 4; the latter five and waveforms like them from other movies are discussed in Studies 5 and 6. Slope = the value of alpha in 1/f ^α; Whittle = a fractional estimate of vector complexity. Both are discussed in the text