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A Creative Computing Approach to Film-story Creation: A Proposed Theoretical Framework

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The film industry is currently witnessing a severe shortage of good stories and a decline in storytelling art. Meanwhile, creative computing has been employed successfully in the humanities, especially in the fields of art. Seeing the similarities between the process of film-story creation and that of creative computing, we propose a theoretical framework across the two domains, where the exploratory, the combinational and the transformational rules are jointly utilized to generate new ideas and provide potential options in filmstory creation. The framework consists of a film knowledge library, a creative computing system, an evaluation model and an output module. The combination of creative computing and film story creation not only helps to produce novel storylines, shorten the creation cycle, and speed up film industry, but also contributes to the novelty and specificity of interdisciplinary studies.

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  2. San Jose State University, San Jose, 95192, USA

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  3. University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, England

    Hong-Ji Yang

  4. South China Business College, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, 510545, China

    En-Ze Yu

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Hong-Wei Liu received the B. A. and M. A degrees in language and literature from Hebei Normal University, China in 1995 and 1998 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in literature and society from the University of Western Australia, Australia in 2008. Currently, she is a professor of linguistics and literature in Tianjin Foreign Studies University, China.

Her research interests include film studies, stylistics, creative computing and its application in the field of arts.

Hong-Rui Liu received the B. Sc. degree in chemical engineering from Hebei University of Science and Technology, China in 1998, the M. Sc. degree in industrial and systems engineering from San Jose State University, USA in 2004, and the Ph. D. degree in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Washington, USA in 2010. She is currently an assistant professor in College of Engineering, San Jose State University, USA.

Her research interests include optimization modeling, computing algorithms, data analytics, and their applications in different industry problems

Hong-Ji Yang received the B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in computer science from Jilin University, China in 1982 and 1985 respectively, and the Ph. D. degree in computer science from Durham University, UK in 1994. He was a faculty member at several universities, i.e., Jilin University, China in 1985, Durham University, UK in 1989, De Montfort University, UK in 1993, and Bath Spa University, UK in 2013. Currently, he is a professor in School of Informatics, Leicester University, UK. He has published well over 400 refereed journal and conference papers. He became IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member in 2010. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Creative Computing.

His research interests include creative computing, software engineering and internet computing.

En-Ze Yu received the B. A. degree in English language and literature from Henan University, China in 2016 and the M. A. degree in foreign linguistics and applied linguistics from Tianjin Foreign Studies University, China in 2019. Currently, he is a staff member of the Division of Academic Research in South China Business College, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China.

His research interests include film studies and stylistics.

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Liu, HW., Liu, HR., Yang, HJ. et al. A Creative Computing Approach to Film-story Creation: A Proposed Theoretical Framework. Int. J. Autom. Comput. 17, 678–690 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-020-1238-8

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