{"title":"Best Desert Movies","theme":"desert","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/desert","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":51,"listedFilms":34,"frames":3801,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"desert","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":22.9,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00307,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00013,"observedInFrames":66},{"element":"dust","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":7.03,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00721,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00103,"observedInFrames":155},{"element":"sand","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":6.59,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01176,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00179,"observedInFrames":253},{"element":"cowboy hat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":5.81,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00721,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00124,"observedInFrames":155},{"element":"mountains","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":5.43,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00381,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0007,"observedInFrames":82},{"element":"dirt","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.66,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00595,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00163,"observedInFrames":128},{"element":"sky","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.38,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00316,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00093,"observedInFrames":68},{"element":"mountain","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.29,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00479,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00145,"observedInFrames":103}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"low_angle","shareOfThemeFrames":0.1083,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0528,"ratio":2.05},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"wide","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2757,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.1952,"ratio":1.41},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"medium","shareOfThemeFrames":0.382,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4818,"ratio":0.79}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.577,"ratio":1.27},{"hue":"blue","share":0.14,"ratio":0.8},{"hue":"red","share":0.128,"ratio":0.85},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.07,"ratio":0.91}],"meanSaturation":0.259,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.428,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Vanishing Point","year":1971,"director":"Richard C. Sarafian","cinematographer":"John A. 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Hoch","exemplarScore":1.211,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-searchers"},{"rank":7,"title":"Dune: Part 2","year":2024,"director":"Denis Villeneuve","cinematographer":"Greig Fraser","exemplarScore":1.171,"framesIndexed":108,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/dune-part-2-2024"},{"rank":8,"title":"Thelma & Louise","year":1991,"director":"Ridley Scott","cinematographer":"Adrian Biddle","exemplarScore":1.129,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/thelma-louise-1991"},{"rank":9,"title":"Rango","year":2011,"director":"Gore Verbinski","cinematographer":"Roger Deakins","exemplarScore":1.054,"framesIndexed":72,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/rango-2011"},{"rank":10,"title":"The Rover","year":2014,"director":"David Michôd","cinematographer":"Natasha Braier","exemplarScore":1.086,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-rover-2014"}],"outlier":{"title":"Return Of The Jedi","year":1983,"exemplarScore":0.084,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}