  This study introduces another application of software engineering tools,
conceptual modeling, which can be applied to other fields of research. One way
to strengthen the relationship between software engineering and other fields is
to develop a good way to perform conceptual modeling that is capable of
addressing the peculiarities of these fields of study. This study concentrates
on humanities and social sciences, which are usually considered softer and
further away from abstractions and (abstract) machines. Specifically, we focus
on conceptual modeling as a software engineering tool (e.g., UML) in the area
of stories and movie scripts. Researchers in the humanities and social sciences
might not use the same degree of formalization that engineers do, but they
still find conceptual modeling useful. Current modeling techniques (e.g., UML)
fail in this task because they are geared toward the creation of software
systems. Similar Conceptual Modeling Language (e.g., ConML) has been proposed
with the humanities and social sciences in mind and, as claimed, can be used to
model anything. This study is a venture in this direction, where a software
modeling technique, Thinging Machine (TM), is applied to movie scripts and
stories. The paper presents a novel approach to developing diagrammatic
static/dynamic models of movie scripts and stories. The TM model diagram serves
as a neutral and independent representation for narrative discourse and can be
used as a communication instrument among participants. The examples presented
include examples from Propp s model of fairytales; the railway children and an
actual movie script seem to point to the viability of the approach.
