SceneMaker Creative technology for digital storytelling

• The School of Creative Arts & Technologies at Ulster University (Magee) has brought together the subject of computing with creative technologies, cinematic arts (film), drama, dance, music and design in terms of research and education. We propose here the development of a flagship computer software platform, SceneMaker, acting as a digital laboratory workbench for integrating and experimenting with the computer processing of new theories and methods in these multidisciplinary fields. We discuss the architecture of SceneMaker and relevant technologies for processing within its component modules. SceneMaker will enable the automated production of multimodal animated scenes from film and drama scripts or screenplays. SceneMaker will highlight affective or emotional content in digital storytelling with particular focus on character body posture, facial expressions, speech, non-speech audio, scene composition, timing, lighting, music and cinematography. Applications of SceneMaker include automated simulation of productions and education and training of actors, screenwriters and directors. © ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2017.

Subject headings

Natural Sciences  (hsv)

Computer and Information Science  (hsv)

Computer Science  (hsv)

Naturvetenskap  (hsv)

Data- och informationsvetenskap  (hsv)

Datavetenskap (datalogi)  (hsv)

Keyword

3D visualisation

Affective computing

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Cinematography

Computer graphics

Dance

Design

Digital storytelling

Drama

Film

Music technology

Natural language processing

SceneMaker

Speech processing

Storyboards

Arts computing

Audio acoustics

Computation theory

Computer games

Films

Human computer interaction

Natural language processing systems

Three dimensional computer graphics

Music technologies

Engineering education