{"title":"Best California Movies","theme":"california","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/california","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":49,"listedFilms":37,"frames":3444,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"cigarette","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.22,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00342,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00154,"observedInFrames":68},{"element":"neon sign","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.06,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00418,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00203,"observedInFrames":83},{"element":"asphalt","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.86,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00352,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00189,"observedInFrames":70},{"element":"sunglasses","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.84,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00302,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00164,"observedInFrames":60},{"element":"sand","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.83,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00327,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00179,"observedInFrames":65},{"element":"leather jacket","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.82,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00478,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00262,"observedInFrames":95},{"element":"steering wheel","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.71,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00312,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00183,"observedInFrames":62},{"element":"car","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.59,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00564,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00354,"observedInFrames":112}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"eye_level","shareOfThemeFrames":0.8519,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.6903,"ratio":1.23}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.501,"ratio":1.1},{"hue":"blue","share":0.162,"ratio":0.93},{"hue":"red","share":0.16,"ratio":1.05},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.067,"ratio":0.88}],"meanSaturation":0.244,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.435,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"American Graffiti","year":1973,"director":"George Lucas","cinematographer":"Jan D'Alquen","exemplarScore":1.244,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/american-graffiti-1973"},{"rank":2,"title":"Grease","year":1978,"director":"Randal Kleiser","cinematographer":"Bill Butler","exemplarScore":1.188,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/grease-1978"},{"rank":3,"title":"Woman of the Hour","year":2024,"director":"Anna Kendrick","cinematographer":"Zach Kuperstein","exemplarScore":1.214,"framesIndexed":111,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/woman-of-the-hour-2024"},{"rank":4,"title":"Licorice Pizza","year":2021,"director":"Paul Thomas Anderson","cinematographer":"Paul Thomas Anderson","exemplarScore":1.125,"framesIndexed":61,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/licorice-pizza-2021"},{"rank":5,"title":"Duel","year":1971,"director":"Steven Spielberg","cinematographer":"Jack A. Marta","exemplarScore":1.089,"framesIndexed":62,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/duel-1971"},{"rank":6,"title":"Palo Alto","year":2013,"director":"Gia Coppola","cinematographer":"Autumn Durald Arkapaw","exemplarScore":1.007,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/palo-alto-2013"},{"rank":7,"title":"The Bling Ring","year":2013,"director":"Sofia Coppola","cinematographer":"Christopher Blauvelt","exemplarScore":0.966,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-bling-ring-2013"},{"rank":8,"title":"A Scanner Darkly","year":2006,"director":"Richard Linklater","cinematographer":"Shane F. Kelly","exemplarScore":0.943,"framesIndexed":62,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/a-scanner-darkly-2006"},{"rank":9,"title":"Basic Instinct","year":1992,"director":"Paul Verhoeven","cinematographer":"Jan de Bont","exemplarScore":0.925,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/basic-instinct-1992"},{"rank":10,"title":"Sideways","year":2004,"director":"Alexander Payne","cinematographer":"Phedon Papamichael","exemplarScore":0.936,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/sideways-2004"}],"outlier":{"title":"Ravenous","year":1999,"exemplarScore":0.07,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}