Film Genre Prediction Based on Film Content and Screenplay Structure

Abstract

In this study, we propose a method to classify genre-based films using film screenplays. The proposed method vectorizes films into two aspects, i.e., film content (i.e., what films tell viewers) and screenplay structure (i.e., how the films narrate stories), and classifies film genres using the support vector machine method. We applied the Doc2Vec algorithm to screenplay structure and to handle film content. In film production, for vectorizing films, we used the statistics of the four screenplay elements: scene, action, dialogue, and transition. Compared with baseline methods, the evaluation showed that the proposed method is better for classifying films of specific genres.