Intro
Once I watched a movie and the director, in an interview, suggested he developed an algorithm to help the development of a good script + popularity. That’s amazing, except by the fact that I can’t find his name or the record of this interview, I think it was Padilha – Elit Squad 1&2/ Robocop – new version.
Movies vs algorithms
I think it is totally possible to develop such algorithms, and I think actually that Netflix was able to develop something similar. At least, that what I think, some guidelines to develop for some niches. I think the plot is not made by a machine, yet, but has some hints – although the development is not done by Netflix itself, but rather by 3rd party productions – I made a small list of some hints on those movies:
Some series always include the elements below:
80’s songs
Dark illumination/ some specific colours on the illumination
A strong female character with the development of self-steam
Confusing male characters
(…)
Queue algorithm
Although the hints above seem to appear always on those series, my main hypothesis is actually a queueing algorithm similar to the kernel scheduler of changing contexts. Well, bare with me on this one.
Each character is a process and has several scenes to be executed. If we get all the characters and split the time equally for the duration of a movie/series you have a Fair Scheduler [1].
But, this might not be the best, since the limbic human system (Musk quoting here) might wait more and more for the scenes of a certain character. In this case, for example, another algorithm could place a specific character more or less, in a not fair way to maximize climax or to focus in a specific detail of the plot. In an Unfair Scheduler, the time is divided equally for all the characters except one, which has less or more time than the others.
REFs
Overhead de Melo 