Hollywood uses static analysis?
October 17th, 2007
So, my brother and I recently started working on a screenplay. We haven’t been able to spend too much time together to work on it, but we did make some good progress this past weekend. We’re using this software called Final Draft which saves us a ton of hassle. One of the interesting things about screenplays is that they have a very unique format. It’s a lot like computers in this respect. In fact, the feature I wanted to talk about in this blog post has a very strong analogy in the software world.
Here’s an example of a scene with a bug:
INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT
ROBERT BOYD sits at his keyboard, working on his latest blog post. He’s trying to demonstrate how static analysis works, and
this action text is serving as an object lesson. He’s about to add some empty dialogue, and that’s not going to go over so well
with Final Draft’s static analyzer.
ROBERT BOYD
(speechless)
And here’s what happens when you run Final Draft’s Format Assistant tool:
See what happened there? Since my character doesn’t have any dialogue, Format Assist knows to complain in the report. No, that “(speechless)” doesn’t count for dialogue, that’s actually a Parenthetical. The dialogue is supposed to come on the next line (and is also closer to the left border).
This functionality is very similar to what’s called static analysis in the software world. There are some older tools like Splint which actually analyze the syntax of your source code, and some newer ones like FxCop and FindBugs which analyze compiler-generated bytecode to find errors. Check out this video where several different classes of bugs are described, all of which can be found using static analysis techniques. These are great tools which work surprisingly well and can save heaps of time.
I’m not aware of any static analysis tools for Actionscript or ABC (Actionscript Byte-Code), but it certainly seems like a good candidate for such technology.
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