Is it possible to create an interactive experience that sustains viewers' emotional involvement with streaming media at the same time that it enlists their attention in determining the order of events? How does one integrate the fluid continuity of cinematic experience with the kinds of choice and control that hypermedia affords? We developed a technique called Seamless Expansion that takes adv...

Commencing with the history of cinema and of communicative technology, this essay focuses on the ways the cinematic sensibility and urban existence have influenced the contemporary experience of surveillance and complexity. And vice versa.

The cinematic landscape provides a rich opportunity to explore cultural representations of place, space and nature. This essay focuses on the depiction of landscape in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert (1964). Previous approaches to the critical interpretation of landscape in the cinema of Antonioni have been characterized by three principal weaknesses: a narrow emphasis on formalist and aute...

This report focuses on the research possibilities of Interactive Storytelling, concretely in the potential of developing different cinematic tools w ithin a storytelling system, with the intention to provide strong, advanced and coherent narrative capabilities in a virtual environment where stories are generated with virtual actors. The context of the proposal is a virtual scenario, developed w...

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 b...

Film cinematography has been developed and applied for more than a century to involve and engage the viewer in visual storytelling. Interactive storytelling games can benefit from these cinematic conventions to enhance visual experience. However, even conversation scenes in games are highly dynamic, and pre-authoring camera parameters using cinematography principles is often insufficient. This ...