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A System to Compose Movies for Cross-Cultural Storytelling: Textable Movie

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Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (TIDSE 2004)

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This paper presents Textable Movie, an open-ended interface that allows anyone to become ”video-jockey.” In the framework of computational storytelling, Textable Movie promotes the idea of maker controlled media and can be contrasted to automatic presentation systems. Its graphical interface takes text as input and allows users to improvise a movie in real-time based on the content of what they are writing. Media segments are selected according to how the users label their personal audio and video database. As the user types in a story, the media segments appear on the screen, connecting writers to their past experiences and inviting further story-telling. By improvising movie-stories created from their personal video database and by suddenly being projected into someone else’s video database during the same story, young adults are challenged in their beliefs about other communities.

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  1. Media Lab Europe, Sugar House Lane, Dublin 8, Ireland

    Catherine Vaucelle

  2. MIT Media Lab, 20, Ames Street, Cambridge, 02139, USA

    Glorianna Davenport

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  1. Digital Storytelling Dept, ZGDV e.V., Rundeturmstr. 10, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

  2. FH Erfurt, University of Applied Sciences, Altonaerstr. 25, 99085, Erfurt, Germany

    Ulrike Spierling

  3. Digital Storytelling Department, ZGDV Darmstadt e.V., Fraunhoferstr. 5, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Anja Hoffmann

  4. Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Rundeturmstr. 12, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Ido Iurgel

  5. Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung e.V., 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Oliver Schneider

  6. Digital Storytelling Department, ZGDV e.V. - Computer Graphics Center, Fraunhoferstr. 5, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Johanna Dechau

  7. Digital Storytelling Department, ZGDV Darmstadt e.V., 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Axel Feix

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Vaucelle, C., Davenport, G. (2004). A System to Compose Movies for Cross-Cultural Storytelling: Textable Movie. In: Göbel, S., et al. Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment. TIDSE 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3105. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27797-2_17

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