West Side Story cinematography — film frames and visual analysis

2021 · 802 frames · Directed by Steven Spielberg

Explore 802 frames from West Side Story and study the film’s composition, color palette, lighting, shot scale and aspect ratio. Open any frame to use composition guides, color analysis and false color tools.

802 frames 2.39:1 Mostly wide shots
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Wide shot frame from West Side Story — sitting, street, car
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Wide shot · Low brightness · Dark teal
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — shirt, person, footwear
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Wide shot · Medium brightness · Dark gray
Frame from West Side Story — window
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Low brightness · Black
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — standing, person, human face
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Wide shot · Low brightness · Black
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — standing, room, suit
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Wide shot · Low brightness · Dark gray
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — glass, window
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Wide shot · Low brightness · Dark teal
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — sitting, book, hat
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Wide shot · Medium brightness · Dark gray
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — shirt, ladder, person
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Wide shot · Medium brightness · Dark gray
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — standing, dialogue, street
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Wide shot · Low brightness · Dark teal
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — room, person, fancy dress
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Wide shot · Medium brightness · Dark orange
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — standing, dialogue, hat
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Wide shot · Low brightness · Dark green
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — standing, room, dialogue
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Wide shot · Low brightness · Dark orange
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — standing, walking, street
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Wide shot · Medium brightness · Dark gray
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — walking, person
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Wide shot · Medium brightness · Dark blue
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — room, dialogue, kitchen
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Wide shot · Medium brightness · Dark red
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — street, person, human face
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Wide shot · Low brightness · Dark gray
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — standing, room, door
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Wide shot · Low brightness · Dark orange
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — walking, street, car
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Wide shot · Medium brightness · Gray
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — standing, shirt, face
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Wide shot · Medium brightness · Dark gray
Wide shot frame from West Side Story — standing, shirt, person
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Wide shot · Low brightness · Dark gray

Visual profile of West Side Story

This visual profile is calculated from 802 frames available in the WatchTheFrame collection.

Color palette of West Side Story

Dark gray 40.7% · 788 frames Black 13.6% · 485 frames Gray 11.7% · 676 frames Dark blue 10.4% · 268 frames Dark orange 8.5% · 265 frames Dark yellow 6.5% · 234 frames Dark teal 6% · 200 frames Dark green 1.3% · 65 frames Muted yellow 1.1% · 80 frames Muted orange 0.2% · 12 frames Dark red 0.1% · 7 frames Dark purple 0.1% · 3 frames Muted teal 0% · 2 frames Muted blue 0% · 1 frames

Lighting and tonal range

Brightness: lower than 81% of films in the collection
DarkBright
Contrast: lower than 91% of films in the collection
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  • The analysed frames are darker than most films in the WatchTheFrame collection.
  • Muted and low-saturation colors appear frequently in these frames.
  • These frames contain a relatively high share of low-contrast images.

Composition and shot characteristics

Wide shot — 96% — 773 frames773Medium shot — 2% — 20 frames20Close-up — 0% — 1 frames1

Explore the visual relationships

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99% color similarity Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
98% color similarity Fatal Attraction (1987)
98% color similarity Twelve Monkeys (1995)
98% color similarity Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
98% color similarity The King's Man (2021)
98% color similarity The Bourne Identity (2002)
98% color similarity First Reformed (2017)
98% color similarity Air Force One (1997)
97% color similarity The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
97% color similarity The Black Phone (2021)
97% color similarity Everything Everywhere All at Once (2021)
97% color similarity Black Panther (2018)
96% color similarity Doctor Strange (2016)
96% color similarity Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
96% color similarity

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Visual tags in West Side Story

fancy dress trousers chest of drawers footwear building dress drawer hug fight street running walking mirror smiling rain train stairs fire wheel shirt human face dialogue standing person

Films with a similar visual profile

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
98% match · 488 frames
The King's Man (2021)
98% match · 638 frames
Fatal Attraction (1987)
98% match · 561 frames
First Reformed (2017)
98% match · 163 frames
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
98% match · 465 frames
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
98% match · 429 frames
Air Force One (1997)
98% match · 607 frames
The Black Phone (2021)
98% match · 422 frames
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2021)
98% match · 621 frames
Mortal Engines (2018)
98% match · 1044 frames
The Bourne Identity (2002)
97% match · 647 frames
Doctor Strange (2016)
97% match · 809 frames

About this collection

Metrics on this page are calculated from 802 frames available for West Side Story in the WatchTheFrame collection. They describe the analysed frames, not the film as a whole.