MovieRemix: Having Fun Playing with Videos

The process of producing new creative videos by editing, combining, and organizing pre-existing material (e.g., video shots) is a popular phenomenon in the current web scenario. Known as remix or video remix, the produced video may have new and different meanings with respect to the source material....

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nicola Dusi, Maria Federico, Marco Furini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2011-01-01
Series:International Journal of Computer Games Technology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/857371
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The process of producing new creative videos by editing, combining, and organizing pre-existing material (e.g., video shots) is a popular phenomenon in the current web scenario. Known as remix or video remix, the produced video may have new and different meanings with respect to the source material. Unfortunately, when managing audiovisual objects, the technological aspect can be a burden for many creative users. Motivated by the large success of the gaming market, we propose a novel game and an architecture to make the remix process a pleasant and stimulating gaming experience. MovieRemix allows people to act like a movie director, but instead of dealing with cast and cameras, the player has to create a remixed video starting from a given screenplay and from video shots retrieved from the provided catalog. MovieRemix is not a simple video editing tool nor is a simple game: it is a challenging environment that stimulates creativity. To temp to play the game, players can access different levels of screenplay (original, outline, derived) and can also challenge other players. Computational and storage issues are kept at the server side, whereas the client device just needs to have the capability of playing streaming videos.
ISSN:1687-7047
1687-7055