Abstract
Soundtracks play an important role in carrying the story of a film. In this work, we collect a corpus of movies and television shows matched with subtitles and soundtracks and analyze the relationship between story, song, and audience reception. We look at the content of a film through the lens of its latent topics and at the content of a song through descriptors of its musical attributes. In two experiments, we find first that individual topics are strongly associated with musical attributes, and second, that musical attributes of soundtracks are predictive of film ratings, even after controlling for topic and genre.- Anthology ID:
- W18-1504
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the First Workshop on Storytelling
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Editors:
- Margaret Mitchell, Ting-Hao ‘Kenneth’ Huang, Francis Ferraro, Ishan Misra
- Venue:
- Story-NLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 33–42
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W18-1504
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W18-1504
- Cite (ACL):
- Jon Gillick and David Bamman. 2018. Telling Stories with Soundtracks: An Empirical Analysis of Music in Film. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Storytelling, pages 33–42, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Telling Stories with Soundtracks: An Empirical Analysis of Music in Film (Gillick & Bamman, Story-NLP 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/W18-1504.pdf
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