With more attention being paid to the representation of women in movies, it’s natural that some would want to find a way to quantify just how filmmakers are doing when it comes to diversifying their casts. An Austin company is using data science to do just that. Mark Bessen is the director of product for Storyfit.
“The core of our technology extracts features from the scripts themselves,” Bessen says. “And then we’re able to make comparisons between the scripts based on the sentiment, the style of the scripts, the types of characters that are represented, in order to get a really accurate picture of the collective set of nominees this year versus last year.”
What you’ll hear in this segment:
–How Storyfit analyzes scripts for female representation
–What studying the data says about this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Picture
–Which films did the best when it comes to female representation
Written by Shelly Brisbin.
