Agent Stories: Authoring Computational Cinematic Stories
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چکیده
Writers of stories for both print and screen have a deeply ingrained tendency to construct stories for an audience to experience the finished work in a fixed linear fashion. Although there are starting to be some examples of fixed non-linear multimedia works, viewing a cinematic story must always be linear, as a linear sequence of pictures and sounds conveying some meaning. However, it should be possible to structure a story non-sequentially for the purpose of providing many different sequential playouts. Computational processes can assist and affect both production and viewing. With this purpose in mind, the focus of my research at the MIT Media Laboratory has been to examine cinematic story construction through the use of computer based storytelling systems. Some questions guiding this research are:
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