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Max Records

Max Records

3 films · 193 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20082016

Born 18 June 1997 · Portland, Oregon, USA

Maxwell Records is an American actor. He is most notable for his roles as Max in the film Where the Wild Things Are, for which he won the 2009 Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actor in a Feature Film, and as Slater Pedulla in The Sitter. He starred in the lead role of John Wayne Cleaver in the 2016 film titled I Am Not A Serial Killer based on the Dan Wells' 2009 novel of the same name which received positive reviews and ratings.

How their films are shot

Measured across 193 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Max 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, 45% of their frames are day, 51% natural — the look of the work Max takes.

Time of day

Day45%
Night36%
Golden hour9%
Interior6%

Lighting

Natural51%
Low key36%
Silhouette7%
High key4%

Shot size

Medium38%
Closeup30%
Wide25%
Fullbody4%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
Low angle13%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral61%
Tense15%
Lonely14%
Ominous7%

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 193 frames from Max Records'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.