Data Stories: Movie Length, Gendered Scripts, and Real-Time Animation
These visualizations track a film’s length versus its quality, consider trends in scriptwriting, and explain the use of deep learning in animating dialogue.
- By Lindsay Stares
- February 14, 2018
Maximizing Your Viewing Time
![length vs duration](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2018/02/021418VizMovieLength.jpg)
How might you quantify the quality of a movie? These charts plot various measures -- critical scores, box office receipts, etc. -- against the length of the film in an attempt to find the most enjoyment per minute.
Hidden Assumptions in the Script
![The Pudding](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2018/02/021418VizGenderedscript.jpg)
The Pudding analyzed 2,000 scripts to track which screen directions were applied more often to either male or female characters.
Deep Learning in Animation
![deep learning animation](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2018/02/021418VizMovieLipSync.jpg)
This research presentation demonstrates a new technique in using neural networks and deep learning to animate speech in real-time.
About the Author
Lindsay Stares is a production editor at TDWI. You can contact her here.