Scriptcloud Screenplay Analytics

Has anyone ever used this program?  Is really worth the trouble?

http://scriptcloud.screenplayanalytics.com/

 

 

Here is part of an article about it:

 

Whatin Heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?” embittered hero
RickBlaine (Humphrey Bogart) is asked early on in the movie. The same
mightbe asked of the millions of people who continue to watch Casablanca more
than 60 years after its first release — the movie is consistentlyranked
in the top ten in lists of greatest films, to the astonishmentof those
involved in its production.
So what made Casablanca such
a success? The answer could be revealed by script-reading
softwaredesigned to help writers create blockbusters rather than flops.
Suchsoftware is in hot demand in Hollywood, and over the past few
yearscompanies have been developing tools to help producers
predictbox-office takings, given a script and casting and budget
information.
Now,a team at Royal Holloway, University of London,
UK, has developed analgorithm to keep scriptwriters ahead of the game.
The algorithmassesses how good a script is as it is being bashed out on
the keyboard(F. Murtagh, A. Ganz & S. McKie Pattern Recognit. ;in
the press). Computer scientists Fionn Murtagh and Stewart McKieteamed
up with screenwriter Adam Ganz to find an objective way tocompare new
scripts with successful ones in their genre. They analyseda selection
of scripts from films deemed successful by critics to findcommon
patterns.
“On the crudest level, we could distinguish action films, such as Die Hard , from a drama such as Casablanca just
on the frequency of verbs compared with character names,” saysGanz. “We
wanted to see if we could find a more sophisticated way touncover
deeper structural patterns.”

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Scriptcloud/Scriptgeist

Just as an FYI - the Nature article talks more about potential than actual…
As the designer/owner of Scriptcloud.com I can only suggest that it’s a quick bit of fun to create a text cloud from your script. My new site at Scriptgeist.com does a lot more than scriptcloud and may also be worth a look.
But let’s be clear about one thing: Neither will help you write a killer script so they are not silver bullets.
Thankfully technology is still some way away from replacing talent.

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