What is it about?
We look at character's faces in movies to discern their mental states. Over the past 60 years, shot durations have gotten shorter, so it has been important for filmmakers to make faces quickly legible. They do this by clearing out the background around the face, decluttering the area of the frame around the character.
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Why is it important?
By speeding up movies (making their shot durations shorter), filmmakers must maintain the ease with which viewers can extract information about the mental states of characters. They do so by increasing the perceptual clarity of their images.
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This page is a summary of: Facial expression, size, and clutter: Inferences from movie structure to emotion judgments and back, Attention Perception & Psychophysics, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-015-1003-5.
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