"Kurosawa": A Script Writer's Assistant

TL;DR

This paper introduces KUROSAWA, an AI-based tool for automated plot and script generation, utilizing fine-tuned GPT-3 models trained on a large, manually annotated dataset to assist scriptwriters in the entertainment industry.

Contribution

It presents a novel dataset and fine-tuning approach for automated story and scene generation, supporting scriptwriters with AI-driven content creation.

Findings

Generated plots and scenes are coherent and creative.

The datasets and models are publicly released as benchmarks.

The system is used by professional scriptwriters at ErosNow.

Abstract

Storytelling is the lifeline of the entertainment industry -- movies, TV shows, and stand-up comedies, all need stories. A good and gripping script is the lifeline of storytelling and demands creativity and resource investment. Good scriptwriters are rare to find and often work under severe time pressure. Consequently, entertainment media are actively looking for automation. In this paper, we present an AI-based script-writing workbench called KUROSAWA which addresses the tasks of plot generation and script generation. Plot generation aims to generate a coherent and creative plot (600-800 words) given a prompt (15-40 words). Script generation, on the other hand, generates a scene (200-500 words) in a screenplay format from a brief description (15-40 words). Kurosawa needs data to train. We use a 4-act structure of storytelling to annotate the plot dataset manually. We create a dataset of 1000 manually annotated plots and their corresponding prompts/storylines and a gold-standard dataset of 1000 scenes with four main elements -- scene headings, action lines, dialogues, and character names -- tagged individually. We fine-tune GPT-3 with the above datasets to generate plots and scenes. These plots and scenes are first evaluated and then used by the scriptwriters of a large and famous media platform ErosNow. We release the annotated datasets and the models trained on these datasets as a working benchmark for automatic movie plot and script generation.