{"id":1065,"date":"2023-03-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:33:12","slug":"the-colour-of-horror-researchers-paint-a-picture-of-six-decades-of-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/2023\/the-colour-of-horror-researchers-paint-a-picture-of-six-decades-of-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colour of Horror, Researchers Paint a Picture of Six Decades of Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The Colour of Horror, Researchers Paint a Picture of Six Decades of Movies\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">March 15th, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2023\/03\/News-20230316-The-Colour-of-Horror-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"News 20230316 - The Colour of Horror\" class=\"wp-image-1761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2023\/03\/News-20230316-The-Colour-of-Horror-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2023\/03\/News-20230316-The-Colour-of-Horror-512x512.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2023\/03\/News-20230316-The-Colour-of-Horror-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2023\/03\/News-20230316-The-Colour-of-Horror-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2023\/03\/News-20230316-The-Colour-of-Horror-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2023\/03\/News-20230316-The-Colour-of-Horror-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2023\/03\/News-20230316-The-Colour-of-Horror-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2023\/03\/News-20230316-The-Colour-of-Horror.jpg 1688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In &#8220;The Colour of Horror&#8221;, researchers paint a picture of six decades of movies. CSIT&#8217;s Lesley Istead and her team from University of Waterloo generate the palettes of 29 thousand film trailers from 1960 to 2019. According to Dr. Istead, computer science can improve the process of film production by offering tools that can help us know whether a film will succeed. Part of that process is just getting a better understanding of film itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study, The Colour of Horror, appears in the Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/fullHtml\/10.1145\/3565516.3565523\">Link to paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 15th, 2023 In &#8220;The Colour of Horror&#8221;, researchers paint a picture of six decades of movies. CSIT&#8217;s Lesley Istead and her team from University of Waterloo generate the palettes of 29 thousand film trailers from 1960 to 2019. 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