A NEW FILM LANGUAGE: “AMATEUR VIDEO”

Retrieving Amateur Video from a Small Collection

Research on digital video libraries has been done in extensive and expensive projects (e.g. Open Video Project [1], Físchlár [2], Informedia [3]). Small video collections have small budgets and cannot afford sophisticated techniques to put their material on-line. Though very basic digital video library features can be good enough for enlarging the access to rarely seen material, e.g. folklore f...

Toward a Researchable Film Language

Amateur ice hockey coaching and the role of video feedback

Amateur minor hockey coaches have recently begun to capture and play back video recordings to provide their teams with visual feedback of their play as a learning tool. Yet what is not clear is whether such video feedback is useful and how video feedback systems could be designed to better match the needs of amateur hockey coaches and players. As such, we wanted to understand coaches’ current p...

"Playing RPG Maker"? Amateur Game Design and Video Gaming

Game creation tools like Game Maker or RPG Maker democratize game making and facilitate the development of amateur game design. The best known among these programs have dynamic web-communities with active members making thousands of games. However, as of now, there is little research on amateur game design except for modding or education fields. In this paper I argue that approaching amateur ga...

Historical Film Restoration and Video

This paper sumarises and extends our previous work in the video coding of historical lm material (in particular, a 1906 feature length lm-which may claim to be the rst feature length lm ever produced). While it may be useful to employ digital restoration techniques on this material, purely for restoration purposes, we focus here only on restoration in so far as is necessary/useful for reducing ...