Anthropology and AI combined:
A new approach to audience
research and filmmaking.

We provide filmmakers with artistic originality and data-based target group research in one solution. Audience insights turned into creative script enrichment.
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Supported by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme and developed with insights from an analysis of the Danish film industry commissioned by the Danish Film Institute.

WE HELP CREATE

Treatment-Emotion-Connection

PUBLIKUM help film projects create a deeper connection to a broader audience in both home and export markets by researching audience reaction to a treatment or early-stage script: Treatment-Emotion-Connection. We combine anthropological research with AI-analysis to provide filmmakers with audience awareness in the shape of deep, human insights developed with precision.
 
We believe that most European filmmakers find audience research more interesting when the audience is seen as human, with feelings and emotions, rather than a potential number of tickets sold.
 
Based on this belief, we built a first-of-its-kind service that helps filmmakers explore the feelings their stories trigger in their future audience through the lens of both anthropology and AI analysis. From early writing and development to launch and positioning, we provide new, creative inspiration derived from the deepest audience emotions to support the process with the aid of technology. We give no hard conclusions, but present our insights as structured reflections. This soft-meets-hard approach, co-developed by anthropologists and data scientists, is designed to balance artistic integrity and audience ambitions.

PUBLIKUM is built for tight deadlines and busy work life.

Film people are busy dealing with an endless series of deadlines during the long process of making a movie. Working with PUBLIKUM brings no extra work to film creators, since the three-step process is fully facilitated by us and delivered within just weeks. A few well-planned meetings and presentations, along with an applied insight report, ensures a smooth introduction to the inner life of the audience and their interest in the film in question. Here’s how it works.

PEOPLE BEFORE COMPUTERS – WE ARE NOT A TECH COMPANY

PUBLIKUM uses AI to support anthropology – not the other way around.

In recent years, AI has gained a foothold in the international film industry. However, where most AI platforms today are occupied with predictions and automated estimations of how successful a development-stage film eventually will be, Will & Agency uses AI technology differently. Having listened intensively to the European film industry, we do not believe that the filmmakers see database predictions as an interesting input in the development phase. AI at the PUBLIKUM platform is therefore used, not to predict a potential sale of a film, but to identify which areas of a certain theme are most important to the audience and, as such most valuable to explore further through the anthropological lens. In this regard, PUBLIKUM can be seen as AI-powered anthropology, since we’ve discovered that anthropology and filmmaking work very well together.

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+45 2213 8754
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Gammel Kongevej 3E, 1. floor, 1610 Copenhagen V, Denmark
VAT no.: DK39391791

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