Compare / Same director There Will Be Blood vs Phantom Thread Shot length, color & pacing compared
Both films are directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, 10 years apart. Phantom Thread averages 10.1 seconds per shot, while There Will Be Blood holds each shot 40% longer, at 14.1 seconds.
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 There Will Be Blood Phantom Thread Average shot length 14.1s 10.1s Total shots 673 772 Cuts per minute 4.2 5.9 Runtime analyzed 158 min 130 min Close-ups or tighter 67% 75% Setup: avg shot 16.0s 8.8s Middle act: avg shot 12.1s 9.6s Final act: avg shot 14.4s 10.9s
Shot scale mix
What the data shows 01 There Will Be Blood has 673 shots (4.2 cuts a minute); Phantom Thread has 772 (5.9 a minute). 02 Phantom Thread frames faces more tightly: 75% of its shots are close-ups or tighter, against 67% for There Will Be Blood. 03 The most common framing in both is the medium close-up. 04 Average frame brightness is within 10% between the two. 05 There Will Be Blood cuts fastest in its middle act (12.1s per shot) and slowest in its setup (16.0s). 06 Phantom Thread cuts fastest in its setup (8.8s per shot) and slowest in its final act (10.9s).