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Mutable cinema, a participatory narrative engine

Published: 19 September 2007 Publication History

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Mutable Cinema is an interactive installation that allows a player to perform live editing of a movie in front of an audience. As the player navigates the interface in real time, he or she generates new patterns from the broad narrative database, such that each performance delivers a different interpretation on the cinematic content.
A player interacts with the installation via a computer screen beside a large projection screen. Game play involves choosing from multiple parallel story paths and selecting different camera angles and points of view. The challenge is in deciding what to play on the big screen and what to leave out. As the player explores the audio/visual database he or she generates a linear montage that becomes the narrative viewed by the audience.
The cinematic content is specially created with multiple parallel story lines to form a multifaceted, and multidimensional, narrative space. This space is explored as the player actively chooses their own sequential path across the interface to access different narrative outcomes. There is sufficient complexity in the back-end design that each player, based on their performance, can generate their own unique story.
Mutable Cinema strives to provide an enjoyable multimedia experience that will enhance forms of social communication and modes of participatory learning.

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    DIMEA '07: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Digital interactive media in entertainment and arts
    September 2007
    212 pages
    ISBN:9781595937087
    DOI:10.1145/1306813
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    1. interactive cinema
    2. participatory storytelling
    3. perception & montage
    4. performance editing

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