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All the data in these tables is for the complete length of the films I have analysed,  taken between the director credit and the end title. If  there is a  pre-credit sequence longer than one minute, this is added on to the data. Shots running under the main titles are NOT included, but any  title included in the main body of the film is counted as a shot.  In the table of ASLs, their length is calculated at 24 frames per second for sound films, and silent films are calculated at the projection  speed  that gives natural movement. In the 'Scope' column, 's' means  the  intended projection aspect ratio of the film is 1:2.2 or 1:2.35 or  wider. 't'  means that it is a 'made for television' movie, 'v' means  that it went  straight to video, 'a' means that it is an animated film,  'd' means that it is a documentary. The 'Country' column only contains  an entry if the film was entirely financed from one country, and the  'Studio' column  only contains an entry if one major studio financed the film. The  figures for camera movement and Scale of Shot are not the  total numbers for those films, but they are normalized to the number  per 500 shots.

The tables for the various quantities are Microsoft Excel (.xls) files, and will open in any spreadsheet program that reads .xls files.

Average Shot Length table      EXCEL_257R  >

Scale of Shot table   EXCEL_257R  >

Camera Movement table EXCEL_257R  >

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The following table contains the complete shot descriptions for the six films studied in The Exact Remake article. The first four columns contain the timecodes for the end of every shot  in the films, followed by the cumulative frame lengths for the  transitions. This is converted to the lengths of the shots in video  frames in the next column, and then this is converted into the shot  lengths in seconds in the following column. Next is the average Scale of Shot, and then columns indicating if the shot is an Insert, a POV, or a reverse  angle(RA). Finally the camera movements are described, with P meaning  Pan, T meaning Tilt, PT meaning Pan with Tilt, TR meaning tracking, TPT  meaning Tracking with Pan and/or Tilt, CR meaning Crane, Z meaning Zoom, and ZPT meaning Zoom with Pan and/or Tilt.

Exact Remake Shot Description Table   EXCEL_257R  >

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