Slasher film editing data

This data set contains shot length data for five slasher films: Halloween (1978), Halloween (2007), Friday the Thirteenth (1980), Friday the Thirteenth (2009), and Slumber Party Massacre (1982). Data was collected by loading each film into a non-linear editing programme and recording the duration of each shot in seconds. As PAL DVD sources are used a correction factor of 1.0416 is applied to the duration of each shot. A <em>shot</em> is defined as a continuous sequence of frames and a <em>cut</em> as the transition between two shots. A cut may be hard with an abrupt transition between consecutive frames belonging to different shots or it may be gradual across a number of frames (e.g. wipe, dissolve, etc) with the cut located at the approximate midpoint of the transition. The data for each film includes titles establishing time, date, and location, but does not include the opening and closing credits unless they are a part of the film’s narrative.