US_Horror_Trailers_Data_Set

This data set contains audio, colour, editing, and motion data for trailers for the fifty highest grossing horror films at the US box office from 2011 to 2015.

All trailers were pre-processed to trim MPAA tag screens and YouTube channel promotional materials, and cropped to remove letterbox blanking.

The sample is described in the file US_Horror_Trailers_Sample_Summary.csv, which contains the title of the film promoted, the URL for the trailer on YouTube (all URLs were correct as of 27 January 2021), the dimensions of the video file after pre-processing, the number of frames after pre-processing, the native frame rate, and the running time of a trailer after pre-processing in seconds.

For each trailer the following information is available:

Audio: the time contour of the normalized aggregated power envelope. One csv file per trailer with the naming convention: *_audio.csv

Colour: three unnamed columns containing the average colour of each frame as an RGB triplet. One csv file per trailer with the naming convention: *_rgb.csv

Motion: total magnitude and horizontal and vertical pixel displacement between consecutive frames. One csv file per trailer with the naming convention: *_motion.csv

Editing: Shot length data in seconds. Shot length data is contained in the csv file US_Horror_Trailers_SL_Data.csv, with one column per data.

All variables are time ordered from frame/shot/window 1 to n even when no explicit time variable is provided.

A guide to visualising the data in this data set is available online here: https://rpubs.com/nr62_rp33/visualizing_trailers.