04Narrative Transportation
Built on Green and Brock's transportation theory. Experimental: a research-stage estimate.
Where is a reader likely to surface from the story, and which scenes let their attention wander?
Reads how firmly the script holds a reader, and flags the scenes where attention is likely to slip.
€7 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 tightening cause-and-effect chains and sharpening imagery before sending a draft out.
- Not designed for
- Measuring how real audiences respond. The synchrony estimate borrows an idea from brain-imaging research, but it is a model’s reading of the text. Treat it as a hypothesis about attention.
What you get
- One verdict for the whole script: how firmly it holds a reader’s attention
- Transportation, causal linearity and visual specificity, each as strong, moderate or weak
- An estimate of audience synchrony: how closely different readers would follow the script together
- The scenes where immersion may break, each with its reason
- Sc. 93
The Parks' long, farcical intimate conversation is loaded with theme. It also lets out the tension, and the suspense can slacken for a while.
What it measures
How completely the script pulls a reader into its world (Green and Brock’s transportation), how tightly each scene causes the next, and how concrete the imagery is. It adds a model estimate of how closely different readers would follow the script together, and marks the scenes where immersion is likely to break.
Method
- 1.The script is read for how strongly it pulls a reader in: attention, imagery and feeling.
- 2.Cause and effect from scene to scene, and how concrete the images are, are read separately.
- 3.The model estimates how closely different readers would follow the script together.
- 4.Scenes where a reader is likely to surface from the story are flagged, each with a reason.
Price by script length
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Terms used in the report
- Transportation
- The state of being “lost in a story”, when attention, imagery and feeling converge inside the narrative world (Green & Brock).
- Audience synchrony
- The model’s estimate of how closely different readers would follow the script moment to moment. The idea comes from inter-subject correlation, which Hasson measured in viewers’ brains. The report reads only the text.
- Causal linearity
- How tightly each scene is caused by the one before it. A chain of “and then” reads as weak; “therefore” and “but” read as strong.
- Visual specificity
- How concrete the images on the page are. Sensory detail pulls a reader in; abstraction keeps them outside.
Run this on your draft
Narrative Transportation on a feature-length script, up to 120 pages. Shorter scripts cost less.
Feature-length price: €7
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.