Can someone explain how the author classified the topics? As I understood the article (and to be honest, I didn't understand it very well) he:
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.
Any unit of measurement would have been arbitrary, and twelfths at least lets you refer to the first third, quarter or half. No idea whether that was the rationale, but I don't think any other division would have seriously affected the point the article is making.
Three act structure with each act divided into quarters.
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.
12 parts be quarters split into three as easily as thirds split into four.
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!).
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.