We have shown in this paper some of the benefits that may accrue when the analysis of audiovisual media can build on more abstract discourse patterns carried out at scale. We have argued that to take this further, however, a progressive increase in computational support is necessary. To this end, we have set out some first steps taken towards bridging some of the gaps between current technical feature processing possibilities and discourse-related characterizations of data. This is being enabled first and foremost by an interactive tool which already seamlessly incorporates a variety of state of the art processing techniques relevant for more abstract annotation practices. We believe such a tool will greatly speed up the manual annotation that our current corpus analysis relies on and will allow us to discover and annotate many more narrative strategies in the future. Once the tool is beyond its prototype stage, we also plan to release it for the DH community, which might use it to search other video material than news videos, for instance YouTube Let’s Play videos for game studies, or any movie or TV series for film studies scenarios. A live demo of the prototype will be included in the presentation at DHd 2023.