Creativity support for novice digital filmmaking

Abstract

Machinima is a new form of creative digital filmmaking that leverages the real time graphics rendering of computer game engines. Because of the low barrier to entry, machinima has become a popular creative medium for hobbyists and novices while still retaining borrowed conventions from professional filmmaking. Can novice machinima creators benefit from creativity support tools? A preliminary study shows novices generally have difficulty adhering to cinematographic conventions. We identify and document four cinematic conventions novices typically violate. We report on a Wizard-of-Oz study showing a rulebased intelligent system that can reduce the frequency of errors that novices make by providing information about rule violations without prescribing solutions. We discuss the role of error reduction in creativity support tools.

A comprehensive framework of information system design to provide organizational creativity support

“…Davies et al [43] claimed that CSSs refer to fuzzily defined domains, having unknown requirements, with fuzzily defined measures of success. CSSs are intended to support not precisely defined users; otherwise, their users behave in an unconventional way.…”

“…It is really important to support problem finding, although this phenomenon is relatively underestimated in the relevant literature [43]. Some attention is paid to a possibility of decomposition, problem hierarchization, and creation of generalizations with the help of IT [71].…”

“…Organizational creativity is an iterative process full of attempts and mistakes [43]. Hence, the process in question requires control, evaluation and selection of the analyzed information/discovered knowledge, and the best suggestions from the whole pool of the ones generated.…”

Moment by Moment

“…Davis et al address the Machinima programming suite of tools for video. They explore how a creativity support tool can bridge the gap between novices and experts by supporting the proper use of cinematic conventions through error reduction [14]. Zhao et al have designed the skWiki project for collaborative multimedia editing on the web that provides editing, chunking and transparent history keeping options [40].…”

An Information System Design for Organizational Creativity Support

“…Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences | 2017 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/41693 ISBN: 978-0-9981331-0-2 CC-BY-NC-ND Davies et al [16] state that creativity support systems (CSS) refer to fuzzily defined domains, having unknown requirements, with fuzzily defined measures of success, and are intended to support not precisely defined users, or their users behave in an unconventional way. Shneiderman [17] advocates that technologies "enable people to be more creative more often" are referred to as creativity support systems.…”