Multidimensional analysis of plot arcs in thousands of TV and movie scripts
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1. Takes a corpus of 'words often used in topic X'
2. Compares that corpus to the script, divided into 12 sections
3. Gives a value to how much the corpus corresponds to the script
A couple of things which interested me:
* Finding original films - would it be possible to come up with a list of films which have been manually classified as 'romantic' but which don't follow the standard 'romance' plot arc?
* Unusual direction or editing - Are there films for which the dialogue can't be used to classify what's going on? Perhaps analysing the soundtrack (loudness, bpm, minor vs major keys) and the video (brightness, colouring, movement) and comparing it to the dialogue would show something interesting.
* Compare the 'deviation from the norm' to reviews, awards, box office takings, and press coverage.
Unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea how to do something like that. Just wondering if it's been done before.
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P.S. Cool article though.
I'm not arguing the point. I'm arguing, that using twelfths has not utility over using per cent, for example, but is counter-intuitive.
Though, to be honest, three acts is kinda misleading since most second acts have a big turning point in the middle. So while yeah, there's a beginning, middle, and end, that middle is really two acts.
Though in any case it would be nice for the article to state why that division was used (even if the reason is completely arbitrary - at least then we'd know to stop guessing!).