Director of Photography and Music Director for Interactive Storytelling

Abstract

The way emotions are expressed in a film has great impact on the viewer's understanding of the narrative. Over the years, filmmakers developed several techniques to enhance the perception of these emotions, such as the photography and the audio editing of the scenes. This paper proposes two cinematography-inspired autonomous agents designed to better express the emotional aspects of interactive storytelling environments. Both the director of photography and music director use support vector machines trained with a cinematography-knowledge dataset to create and manipulate the audio and visual parameters of a runtime dramatization engine, thus increasing the immersion of the viewers in the story.