This is the first part in what will be a series of posts - a frame-by-frame analysis of the Film The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Some preliminary caveats: 1.) The source material is @23.976215 fps. With a standard running time of 161 minutes, this should give us 231,610 frames. 2.) We omit the following for lack of useful information: Opening/closing credits and frames containing only black. Thus, we shall stop early at fade-outs (and omit the scene pauses) and start late at fade-ins. 3.) Hence, the "230,000" in this subject is only a very crude approximation of the actual number of frames we shall analyze. The real number will be known after the last post of the series and can be expected to be considerably lower. 4.) With the skipped frames of the source material, we will enumerate our frames starting with 1, closing the gaps - i.e. if we skip frames 50-80 from the source material (but did examine frames 1-49), frame 81 of the source material will get the number 50. 5.) We shall analyze one frame per day.
And so we begin...
FRAME 1 TIME INDEX: 00:01:05.962
The sensitive eye starts to detect the first hints of shapes, emerging from the absolute darkness that the previous few dozen frames comprised. It is yet unclear what those shapes signify or belong to. In fact, the image is so dim, we have to resort to computer imaging methods to enhance the image...
After transforming the histogram of the source material, more patterns emerge. The left half of the image would suggest that these patterns are roof gables. It is hard to tell, however, as the video codec introduces a significant amount of artefacts (with respect to the source signal) at these brightness levels. But the triangular shape on the left side of the image is pronounced enough to warrant some confidence in assuming that indeed those forms will emerge as roofs to the viewer in the frames to come; this also implies that there will be an increase in brightness in the source material, which then lets it stand to reason that we are currently witnessing a fade-in.
There are also at least two likely yellowish sources of light. Maybe there are more, as the image contains several pronounced specks/spots. It is still too early to determine that. It may also be reflections of a light source on some object. The color would suggest the light source to be a candle or a torch of some sort.
The image seems to be composed of three distinct layers: Sources of light, objects we assume to be roofs, and grayish area between those objects. It would seem logical to surmise that this area is some kind of open space: The night sky over the roofs, a street or a town square beneath them, maybe a combination of both. Building on these hypotheses, some of the unidentified spots might turn out to be parts of roofs themselves. This would lead to the conclusion that what we are looking at here is a town or some other kind of settlement at night.
>The source material is @23.976215 fps Weren't the Hobbit flicks that failed 48fps gimmick? OP you have 460 thousand frames to anaylze
Angel Johnson
>Weren't the Hobbit flicks that failed 48fps gimmick? OP you have 460 thousand frames to anaylze Are you trying to drive OP Insane?
Alexander Anderson
It's interesting that they decided to start with a black screen. When the LotR ended we thought all is left is the black void but now a new movie emerges from that void. Though obviously this is a prequel and not a sequel but that just underlines how life in general starts and ends in nothing. What is time even? What came first? The chicken or the egg? We simply don't know. That's what makes these movies so fascinating. They speak to the msystery deep inside every one of us.
Cameron Peterson
I watched it in HFR and you didn't (and definitively won't)
Adrian Carter
How do I subscribe to threads on 4channel?
Evan Myers
...........
Juan Rivera
checkem
Adrian Hernandez
Is he saying that enjoying experimental movies makes you a postmodern schmuck? Please tell me I’m misreading that line
This will be the one post that will unite Yea Forums for generation after generation. OP's sons will continue his work. Will you post frame two at the same time tomorrow? I don't want to miss it.
Cooper Thompson
And I shall teach my sons to continue following these posts
Gavin Allen
I hope you're planning on doing more than one frame per day. I want to see this through to the end but I don't want to live for 229,999 more days.
What is the point of this? You're not actually analysing anything, you're describing what appears. Analysis is about finding meaning.
Jaxson Harris
The 24 fps version is not the director's vision. Why analyze if you're not looking at the actual work?
Adam Martinez
Mauler is the kind of retard who would praise a christopher nolan movie simply because, by virtue of having every single character sit down and explain the plot and faux technology to you in dialogue, the movie has no 'holes' or 'inconsistencies' and therefore it's perfect i.e. an autist, whom like most people nowadays does not really understand that the appreciation and understanding of visuals is not something you can quantify 'objectively' in some shitty wiki and as such he has a disdain for anything surreal or allegorical Mauler and subnormal people like him (which encompasses most if not all "youtube critics") would look at pic related, and comment on how the lighting and set design are not realistic or how the acting is overexxagerated and file that under "objective" complaints, without ever considering the idea that the scene may have been trying to convey something, and that's just depressing
now this in-depth film analysis is what i came for
Nathan Cook
His legacy will continue through father to equally autistic son.
Oliver Turner
Blessed thread
Julian Scott
>" We omit the following for lack of useful information: Opening/closing credits and frames containing only black." >first frame is a frame that only contains black Epic
Blake Baker
>My great grandkids might see the end of this series Feels fantastic
Nathaniel Scott
this visionlet can't even detect the first hints of shapes in frame 1/230000
>it's an OP starts a series of shitposts and gets tired after 10 threads episode wew very based content this is why i love this board let's check on avatarfag
Okay, buttfucker cumtruck nigger. Let’s crunch some numbers, because you think you’re funny. Let’s use your crude approx of 230k frames to analyze. Say we’re going the pace you’re at now, one thread per day. It will take you 630 years, and about 1 month and 3 weeks to completely cover every frame. Now let’s say you’re a true 4chancel, and you make 3 threads DAILY for your autistic charade. That’s still 210 YEARS and 1 month.
Optimally, let’s say you’re 20 years old. The only feasible way of actually being able to start and end this gay orgy of a discusión is to have 11 (eleven) threads PER DAY. One every 2 hours. Better start, nigger.
Do 24 frames a day so we can enjoy whole 1 second of it.
Jayden Foster
>movies do not deal with facts >it isn’t a fact that Han Solo dies in TFA This is cringe, bro. You posted cringe.
Justin Bennett
>5000 years from now >the remnants of humanity live as hunter/gatherers in the small pockets of nonirradiated land scattered around the globe >the English language has long been forgotten, but they still find a way to mark each hardscrabble day >today is day 113,871 of the ninth Cycle of Smaug, and mankind perseveres.
This post is even more cringe than all the "put me in the epic r/Yea Forums screencap xD" replies.
Jayden Thomas
Well isn't that the question of the day?
Levi Edwards
was it cringe or basta?
Josiah Ward
Posting in an ebin thread.
Nolan James
Absolutely based thread OP. Drawing attention to the consistently banal and repetitive threads on 4channel/tv in such a humorous manner. I applaud your efforts and wish you every success.
