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Another Inspiration for the Project and the Logo

This movie might be "THE" visual expression what this project "Movie Pulse" is all about - movies have a straight entry point to our emotions: our eyes.

I visited the interfilm festival in Berlin in 2014 and have seen "Par desmit minutem vacaks"

(engl. "Ten minutes older") by Herz Frank. This is just an excerpt, because I assume you're not in a cinema-like surrounding. It's an audience of almost only children, seeing a movie or theater play (no one really knows, my research told me). Their expressions are so intense and change from one emotion to another in fractions of time. This experience can only be achieved in a cinema/theater, in my honest opinion.

If you know what those children see - please tell me. You can read more about the movie, Neil McGlone wrote an article about it at cinemaofchildhood.

And there was a full length feature movie which inspired me as well.

At the end those little pieces - seen a picture here, watched a movie there and reading various sources are the components for making a decision to build an app like that.

"The Revenant"

Wow, the use of Movie Pulse seems to offer some surprises. Although me and a colleague have recorded a few pulses, this graph is kind of special. At first: I haven't read any reviews or plot summaries of "The Revenant" beforehand - which is my preferred cinema experience.

What can I say about the extraordinary first 30 minutes of my pulse? If this app would be an analog TV set, it looks like it needed some force taps. And of course I am not sure if the generated trend line is perfectly calculated in all situations. But one can identify large parts of intensity as well as those of relaxations.

The extreme change of large calm and excited moments is so unique. After the first 30 minutes my pulse gets more comparable to heart rates measured with other movies. But the trend line now reflects my feelings: the emotional tension goes up and up.

What an archaic story! Great movie, great actor. Two things bothered me: The unmotivated water sound, where no water is (especially around/after 2:00) and two of the three cases of breaking the fourth wall: the fogged lenses by DiCaprio's breath and the bloody snow at one fight scene. Maybe it's been used to prepare the last look onto us, the audience.

I can't wait to see the movie pulse of my colleague. We both agreed to watch "The Revenant".

And how about yours? Would be interesting having more pulses of the same movie. Please send in, we're not after your personal data, just the anonymous graph while you where watching the same movie.

The Revenant · Alejandro G. Iñárritu · 2015

See Movie Pulse in Action

It's a simple task, since the app detects automatically a new recording. 

All you have to do is find the movie in the list - tipp: Just type the name, the year will not be helpful, since we search for titles only. But in the list, you'll find the year helpful to identify the correct one, since movies with identical names exist.

Movie Pulse of "Legend"

Another dilemma is, of course, the absence of plot information. We might be able to improve this in future somehow. But for now I can just speculate about obvious peaks like the hammer scene and other brutalities in this movie.

The less wavy trend line seems to match my feelings about the story overall: flat.

But there is one thing, one man - or two if you like - Tom Hardy is great in this kind of "Jekyll-Hide" character.

Legend

Btw. I had to manually change the poster, because the "Open Movie Database" has not offered a "legend" movie of the year 2015. If you have other problems finding movies - tell me.

First Comparison · Star Wars 2015

Here comes a first result to compare the heart rate of two different people watching the same movie. Both persons have seen the movie in different locations and at different times (Person 1 & 2).

At first I put graph one onto the other - regardless of the absolute heart rate, which resulted in a centered position in y, which is the pulse (Person 1 +2 Overlay). Because of the visual confusing outcome I decided to identify similarities via simple color multiplication (Similarities [Overlapping]).

This is my theory what this result can tell: In those regions which have overlapping color (red + red or green + green) both persons have had the same kind of pulse: either above the trend line (red) or below (green). This means both persons have been emotionally touched in the same manner. So the bars in grey depict those time frames, where both individuals have been responded similar - although they have seen the movie in different locations and at different day time (and of course at different dates).

Person 1 fails keeping attention after 30 minutes - it's me, folks and this is why: I went to the cinema in the afternoon, when I usually have my energy drop.

Star Wars · Another Try

A colleague of mine watched as well "Star Wars: The Force Awakens". She used the watch and app as well, and so far I can tell - there are differences (besides the fact she's not seen the movie in an energy drop time of the day).

Star Wars: The Force Awakens · A different heart rate

This looks more "spectacular" to me, which has been the reason to use this pulse for the default movie - not mine.