01Emotional Rhythm Strip
Built on Plutchik's theory of emotion. Interpretive: read by a model.
Is my script dragging? If so, where does the emotional energy flatten out?
Reads every scene for the emotions it gives the audience, and shows where the intensity builds, flattens or drifts from your genre.
€8 is the price for a feature-length script, up to 120 pages. A 10-page scene costs €3. Most reports are ready in a few minutes. No account, and your script is deleted as soon as the analysis has run.
- Best for
- Writers revising pacing, tone, or emotional escalation across a draft.
- Not designed for
- Judging whether a quiet stretch is a mistake. Sustained calm can be deliberate. The strip shows you the pattern, and you decide whether it serves the story.
What you get
- The emotional rhythm strip: what the audience feels in every scene, and how intensely
- The emotions that lead across the whole script, and the shape of its arc
- The genres the emotional palette fits, as strong, partial or weak fit, and the scenes that drift from them
- Findings on pacing and tone, and notes for the next draft
- Sc. 69–100, 131
Scenes 69 to 100 are the busiest stretch: amusement, tension, dread and disgust all arrive at once. The peak comes later, in scene 131, the most intense single scene.
For the next draft
- With the Kims under the table in scene 93, the Parks' banter plays as comedy on top of the dread built in the scenes before it, and every extra line of it lets a little more tension out. Where in that banter does the audience need to remember the Kims are inches away?
What it measures
Reads every scene for the mix of audience emotions it carries (18 of them, a set built on Plutchik’s) and for its pace, with the lines that show both. From those scenes it draws the palette and arc of the whole script, the genres it fits, and the scenes that drift from them.
Method
- 1.The script is split into scenes.
- 2.Each scene is read for the audience emotions it carries, how strongly, and at what pace.
- 3.The emotions across the whole script are set against the palettes typical of each genre.
- 4.Scenes whose emotion pulls against the script’s genre are flagged as drift.
Price by script length
Every price includes VAT. You choose the length when you upload.
Terms used in the report
- Audience emotion
- What the reader or viewer feels during a scene, as distinct from what the characters feel. A calm scene can make the audience feel dread.
- Emotion mixture
- A scene rarely carries one emotion. The report reads each scene as a blend and names the emotions that lead it.
- Genre fingerprint
- The genre implied by the script’s emotional palette, which may differ from the genre on the title page.
- Genre drift
- A scene whose dominant emotion contradicts the established genre contract, such as a comedy beat inside a slow-burn horror.
Run this on your draft
Emotional Rhythm Strip on a feature-length script, up to 120 pages. Shorter scripts cost less.
Feature-length price: €8
Analyse my scriptFurther reading
The references show where the instrument comes from. They don't validate individual readings; the methodology page covers what is measured, what is inferred and the known limits.