Extracting Alfred Hitchcock’s Know-How by Applying Data Mining Technique

Video editing process is the work to produce final video sequences with certain duration by finding and selecting appropriate shots from the video material and connecting them. Then, according to the editor’s skills, the video editing differs in qualities from various characteristic patterns. In order to produce excellent videos, this process is generally conducted according to the ‘cinematic rule’. Furthermore, in movies, there are several kinds of rhythms associated with contents. We define such rhythms based on the character’s appearance. In this paper, we propose the methods of extracting cinematic rules and interesting patterns of rhythms by introducing data mining techniques. Data mining is the technique to discover useful patterns of interest from a vast quantity of data. Finally, we can edit new video by applying the extracted rules to our video editing support system. The resultant video must be produced in similar quality to the video that is used to extract the rules.