How to find the movie on the picture

How to find the movie on the picture

Participating in different competitions and quizzes for fans of cinema, it is often possible to face a task to guess the movie on the fragment provided from it. Sometimes the task is complicated by the fact that not remarkable shot is selected.

It is required to you

  • - Internet access;
  • - filmographies of actors.

Instruction

1. The way of search in many respects depends on where there is a picture according to which you need to guess the movie. If you have an opportunity to save the image on the computer, use Google search engine for the solution of a task, using the provided shot as request. Open a window of the search program and click the Still bookmark, then - "All products". After that before you the window with the list of all available opportunities of Google will open.

2. Select the link: "Search by the picture". Pass according to it, before you the Google of the Picture window will open. Click the camera icon close to a search string, and select a way of loading of the image: "Load the file" or "Specify the link". Before loading of the file save a frame from the movie on the hard drive. Then press the Browse button and select the saved file. After you specify it, the program at once will begin search of all of the web pages interfaced to this image.

3. In that case if you have no image on the computer (the picture is placed in the log, the newspaper, etc.), use other options of search. Analyze the provided shot. If on the shown fragment there are no people (actors), and the natural landscape is represented, for example, to guess such picture rather difficult. There is a set of movies with similar outdoor shootings therefore it is very easy to mix one movie with another.

4. A little any additional objects or objects which are in a shot facilitate a task. For example, even the icon hanging on a wall in a certain foreshortening can prompt to the expert on cinema art that before it a fragment of the movie of A. Tarkovsky "Andrei Rublev".

5. Pay attention to household items if they are present at the picture, try to specify a historical interval of time of the narration with their help. If at a shot there is a car, it is possible to determine by its model rather precisely action time, and at times and the country. For example, the GAZ car - 21 Volga transfers the viewer to the Soviet Union, in sixtieth or seventieth at once. Perhaps, before you a frame from the movie of Eldar Ryazanov "Beware of the car".

6. Try to understand in what country the film is shot, proceeding from appearance of streets, internal furniture of rooms, to shape of characters (if they are available). It is good if you manage to define a movie genre (the fighter, the melodrama, the comedy, a fantasy, horrors), it considerably will narrow search borders.

7. If at a shot there are actors, and they are known to you, but you cannot remember the movie, open their filmographies and attentively check them. Perhaps, you will at once see that name which was looked for. At emergence of difficulties try to determine approximately the age of the actors represented on a fragment. Browse the part of a filmography corresponding to it, it will reduce the general search time.

8. Use opportunities of search queries. For example, on the provided fragment Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov going on the vehicle with some girl is represented. Let's say you recognize young Elena Proklova in the girl. Enter into a search string of your browser approximately such request: "Movie with Oleg Tabakov and Elena Proklova". And at least one of the provided resources will give you result: "Gori, burn, my star". Use of search services considerably facilitates the correct definition of the movie.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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