Yuko Nakamura – Google+ – How do you search movies? Trick: “Movie poster images by color” #googlesearch #movie #trick
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/31
I was aware of Finally, proof that all movie trailers use the same color palette.
Now I know that movie posters differ there palettes according to the genre of movie.
Thanks Lars Fosdal – Google+. for re-sharing this: How do you search (Google) movies?
It got me doing some searching myself, and the colour distribution has been researched before too:
- The Evolution of Movie Poster Colors, Visualized.
- Colours in movie posters since 1914 « Vijay Pandurangan’s blog.
- Colour distribution of movie posters by year from 1914 to 2011.
Back to the shared post, as it adds genre to the colours:
Trick: “Movie posters” by color on Google Images
- Type “movie posters”
- Click images > Search tools > Color
[Movies by Colors]
- Red: Likely Action
- Orange: Likely Drama, Western and / or Adventure
- Yellow: Likely Comedy
- Green: Likely Sci-Fi
- Light Blue: Likely History and / or Mystery
- Blue: Likely History and / or Mystery (almost same as the light blue)
- Purple: Likely Romance or / and Horror
- Pink: Likely Drama
- White: Likely Drama, Thriller or / and Horror
- Grey: Mystery, History, Documentary, Action and / or Drama
- Black: Likely All
Brown: Action, Sci-Fi, Fantacy and / or Classic
More Google search tricks and tip: google.com/insidesearch/tipstricks/
So how do you search a movie for tonight?
–jeroen
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