Narrative Analysis for HyperGraph Ontology of Movies Using Plot Units

We give a initial report on the potential of narrative theory driven graph based representations of movies for narrative analysis and summarization. This is done using automatic generation of Plot Units and determination of affect states for characters. Given the power of theory driven graph representations of movies based on these initial experiments, we present a graph ontology for movies based on hypergraphs. An example as to how graph representations for narrative analysis fit into this ontology is also presented. We thus argue that a graph data model for the content of movies could better capture its underlying semantics.