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Mohsen Vaziri—graphic designer, photographer.

Movie Framelines


Each movie has a distinctive look and feel. Capturing this look in a single photo can lead to unexpected results.

By taking one frame of each second of a movie, averaging its overall colour, condensing it into a thin line and putting them all together we end up with an abstract visual timeline that represents the tone of the movie at a glance.
In Blade Runner’s sequel, the director expanded the palette of the original movie quite a bit. An animation like Pixar's Inside Out has a very distinctive look and some movies could feel vastly different from one scene to another, like The Neon Demon.
Going through a director’s filmography reveals their overall visual style and when they changed direction and tried a different look. Also, scrolling through a set of framelines is always mesmerising.