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Martin Compston

Martin Compston

3 films · 121 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20062018

Born 8 May 1984 · Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland

Martin Compston is a Scottish actor and former professional footballer. He is perhaps most notable for his role as Liam in Sweet Sixteen, and for his role as Ewan Brodie in Monarch of the Glen.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin Compston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

How their films are shot

Measured across 121 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Martin takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 41% natural — the look of the work Martin takes.

Time of day

Day48%
Night41%
Interior8%

Lighting

Natural41%
Low key40%
High key11%
Silhouette7%

Shot size

Medium36%
Closeup26%
Wide26%
Establishing9%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
Low angle10%

Mood

Neutral67%
Lonely15%
Tense15%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 121 frames from Martin Compston's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.