The First Emperor (2006)
Directed by Nic Young
110 min148 frames
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What is The First Emperor about?
Docu-drama profiling Ying Sheng, the first Emperor of China. Charting the life of the man who unified China, this documentary begins with the future Emperor's rise to power after the death of his father, becoming King of Qin at the age of thirteen. Mostly told through the use of re-enactments, the story continues to the present day and the discovery of the Emperor's tomb and terracotta army in 1974.
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What does the cinematography of The First Emperor look like?
Across 148 sampled frames, The First Emperor builds its coverage from medium shots (41% of the sample), with close-ups (22%) carrying much of the rest. The lighting keeps 56% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Focus stays shallow in 61% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of The First Emperor?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The First Emperor (2006) are #34302b, #0e0c0c, #545049, #d4d1ca, #534738, #8d7457 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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