This has been almost 2.5 years in the making.

The question we started off with was - if there are scales and raagas for music, is there something similar for storytelling. What goes well after what beat.

That took us through a journey.

Building Quanten Pulse, which led to Quanten Arc (real data, that led to a model), which then allowed us to create a benchmark database of more than 400 films.

So if you breakdown 400 hollywood blockbusters, and break them scene by scene, map emotions and durations, and character arcs, what is the patterns that you see - and if you step back, do you see clusters of patterns that resonate well.

Most people in hollywood write stories in two structures - predominantly. It is either Save the Cat, or the Heroes journey. But what if you don't want to save cats or go on the journey? (imagine if someone telling a musician, you have two scales - thats it).

We took a peek into the 400 and found 15 different narrative structures that work well. I have a feeling as we expand - into regional cinema, and different formats, we will find more.

Tell me what you think : https://arc.quanten.co/archetype

PS: While we started with Hollywood, we are starting to do this analysis for Bollywood films too (though finding scripts has been difficult)