Question
Were movies from the early 2000s more blue?
The project tests whether a culturally sticky visual impression survives a reproducible colour measurement pipeline.
What I built
Frame measurements, movie summaries.
The pipeline records RGB, blue-ratio, blue-pixel share, luminance, saturation, HSV hue, and Lab summaries, then aggregates measurements to one row per movie.
Key design decision
Keep the movie as the unit.
More frames can improve the estimate for one film. They do not provide the same information as more independently sampled films.
Artifact
Limitations
Colour is not cinematography.
Colour metrics are not the same as cinematography, genre, or cultural meaning. The clustering view is exploratory, not causal.