{"title":"Best Alien Movies","theme":"alien","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/alien","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":79,"listedFilms":52,"frames":6526,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"alien","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":28.57,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00387,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00014,"observedInFrames":144},{"element":"robot","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":18.04,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00505,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00028,"observedInFrames":188},{"element":"control panel","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":7.74,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00311,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0004,"observedInFrames":116},{"element":"helmet","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.93,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00416,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00106,"observedInFrames":155},{"element":"debris","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.53,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.004,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00113,"observedInFrames":149},{"element":"boy","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00838,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00279,"observedInFrames":312},{"element":"soldier","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.77,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00416,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0015,"observedInFrames":155},{"element":"smoke","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.43,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00491,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00202,"observedInFrames":183}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. 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Abrams","cinematographer":"Dan Mindel","exemplarScore":0.866,"framesIndexed":70,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/star-trek-into-darkness-2013"},{"rank":8,"title":"The Iron Giant","year":1999,"director":"Brad Bird","cinematographer":"Steven Wilzbach","exemplarScore":0.808,"framesIndexed":156,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-iron-giant-1999"},{"rank":9,"title":"Transformers","year":2007,"director":"Michael Bay","cinematographer":"Mitchell Amundsen","exemplarScore":0.794,"framesIndexed":102,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/transformers-2007"},{"rank":10,"title":"Alien: Romulus","year":2024,"director":"Fede Álvarez","cinematographer":"Galo Olivares","exemplarScore":0.762,"framesIndexed":84,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/alien-romulus-2024"}],"outlier":{"title":"Fire In The Sky","year":1993,"exemplarScore":0,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}