Compare / Same director Punch-Drunk Love vs There Will Be Blood Shot length, color & pacing compared
Both films are directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, 5 years apart. Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood cut at almost the same pace: 15.6s and 14.1s per shot on average.
Each stripe is the average color of a slice of the film, from the first frame (left) to the last (right).
By the numbers Metric Punch-Drunk Love There Will Be Blood Average shot length 15.6s 14.1s Total shots 367 673 Cuts per minute 3.9 4.2 Runtime analyzed 95 min 158 min Close-ups or tighter 69% 67% Setup: avg shot 19.8s 16.0s Middle act: avg shot 16.2s 12.1s Final act: avg shot 10.6s 14.4s
Shot scale mix
What the data shows 01 Punch-Drunk Love has 367 shots (3.9 cuts a minute); There Will Be Blood has 673 (4.2 a minute). 02 Both films use close-ups at a similar rate (69% and 67% of shots). 03 The most common framing in both is the medium close-up. 04 Punch-Drunk Love is the brighter film overall: its average frame brightness is 19% higher than There Will Be Blood's. 05 There Will Be Blood has the warmer palette, with noticeably more red than blue across the film; Punch-Drunk Love sits cooler. 06 Punch-Drunk Love cuts fastest in its final act (10.6s per shot) and slowest in its setup (19.8s). 07 There Will Be Blood cuts fastest in its middle act (12.1s per shot) and slowest in its setup (16.0s).