Interactive Film Recombination

Abstract

In this article, we discuss an innovative media entertainment application called Interactive Movietelling. As an offspring of Interactive Storytelling applied to movies, we propose to integrate narrative generation through artificial intelligence (AI) planning with video processing and modeling to construct filmic variants starting from the baseline content. The integration is possible thanks to content description using semantic attributes pertaining to intermediate-level concepts shared between video processing and planning levels. The output is a recombination of segments taken from the input movie performed so as to convey an alternative plot. User tests on the prototype proved how promising Interactive Movietelling might be, even if it was designed at a proof of concept level. Possible improvements that are suggested here lead to many challenging research issues. CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Scene understanding;

The User Experience of Journeys in the Realm of Augmented Reality Television

“…voice and gesture, should be further examined for more nuanced interactions during ARTV journeys. For example, interactions designed to control various parameters of ARTV, e.g., perspective and level of augmentation, or the development of the televised show towards exploring alternative plots, such as interactive movietelling [26] by recombination of story segments. 5.1.5 Surface.…”