Lines Reveal the Great Compositions in Famous Movies

Want to see the composition concepts used in famous scenes from famous movies? Raymond Thi of Composition Cam has been taking still frames and overlaying neon pink lines to show things like symmetry, thirds, quadrants, triangles, diagonals, and more.

You may remember the shot above from the film The Shining by Stanley Kubrik. Here are some more images created by Thi:

Kill Bill

Silence of the Lambs

Full Metal Jacket

Titanic

Ghostbusters

The Truman Show

Black Swan

Harry Potter

Road to Perdition

Children of Men

Spartacus

The Matrix

You can find more of these composition images and follow along with Thi’s project through the Twitter account @comp_cam. Thi has also created an app called Composition Cam that lets you overlay these same composition lines over the real world to reference while taking pictures.