Publications

Movies of the Future: Storytelling With Computers

Beacham F

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April 1995

American Cinematographer, p. 4 - 12.

Abstract

The concept is new, bold and certain to be controversial. Take a computer, infuse it with a detailed database of information about a story, and then let the computer present the story to the audience in its own way. The storytelling computer -- responding to the background, interests and preferences of its audience -- decides what images or sounds it wants to use in the presentation. It allows the story to take different points of view, choose different characters and scenes, have different pacing and even sets the total running time. Development of computational storyteller systems is a key research element into Movies of the Future at the Media Laboratory on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. This new branch of research, led by Professor Glorianna Davenport at the Interactive Cinema Group, seeks to create a series of new cinematic storytelling forms.

http://mf.media.mit.edu/pubs/journal/moviesfuture.pdf