Designing movies (and sounds) for your brain

Apparently [film editors have gravitated toward a consistent pattern for shot length in major films over the years](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/science/02angi.html), repeating shots of a few given lengths much more often than in the past.

> “According to the new report, the basic shot structure of the movies, the way film segments of different lengths are bundled together from scene to scene, act to act, has evolved over the years to resemble a rough but recognizably wave-like pattern called 1/f, or one over frequency.”

This power law formula is observed many places in nature, and [corresponds to the natural human attention span pattern](http://www.physorg.com/news185781475.html). This is also the formula for generating [pink noise](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise); to me, the pink noise sample at that link is more soothing than either the white or brown noise ([more on the colors of noise](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise)). Is it the same for you?