Cinematography relies on a rich vocabulary of shots and framing parameters to communicate narrative event structures. This cinematic vocabulary stems from the physical capabilities of camera movement and uses aesthetic aspects to engage the audience and influence audience comprehension. At present, automatic physical camera control is limited in cinematic vocabulary. Virtual cameras, on the oth...

Automatic cinematic generation for virtual environments and games has shown to be capable of generating general purpose cinematics. There is initial work that approaches cinematic generation from the perspective of narrative instead of low level camera manipulation. In our work, we further extend this idea to take into consideration a model of user memory. Models of reader comprehension and mem...

In previous work we argued that cinematic language may provide insights into the construction of narrative coherence in hypertext, and we identified in the shot juxtaposition of rhetorical patterns the source of coherence for cinematic discourse. Here we deepen our analysis, to show how the mechanisms that underpin cinematic rhetorical patterns are the same as those providing coherence in writt...

In order to better understand the characteristics of digital space, this paper investigates another artificial environment cinema. By presenting some very common visualization techniques employed in mainstream film making, the paper first tries to compare the visualization techniques in the two media and see if the cinematic ones has any equivalents in computer interfaces. Secondly, it speculat...

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 r...

the focus of this article is in the area of poetry and film, dealing specifically with the visual potentials of a monumental persian classic epic, that is, firdowsi's shahnameh. in this masterpiece, the visual world is formed out of images which could represent it in many different ways, at times extremely glorified at other times immensely emotional and psychological but always absolutely...

Machinima is a low-cost alternative to full production filmmaking. However, creating quality cinematic visualizations with existing machinima techniques still requires a high degree of talent and effort. We introduce a lightweight artificial intelligence system, Cambot, that can be used to assist in machinima production. Cambot takes a script as input and produces a cinematic visualization. Unl...