A Multimedia System for Authoring Motion Pictures

MAD (Movie Authoring and Design) is a novel design and authoring system that facilitates the process of creating dynamic visual presentations such as motion pictures and lecture-demonstrations. MAD supports the process by enhancing the author's ability to structure and modify a presentation and to visualize the ultimate result. It does this by allowing both top-down design and bottom-up creation with a hierarchical multimedia document representation; by supporting the flexible inclusion and combination of words, images, sounds, and video sequences; and by providing real-time playback of the best approximation to the ultimate presentation that can be produced at any stage of the design process. MAD represents a paradigm shift from traditional methods of authoring and producing motion pictures. Its development therefore requires in-depth observation of a variety of users working on a variety of filmmaking projects. After describing the key concepts underlying MAD and the current, s...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: MM
• Authors: Ronald Baecker, Alan J. Rosenthal, Naomi Friedlander, Eric Smith, Andrew Cohen
• Keywords: Design Process, Iterative Design, MM 1996, Motion Picture, Multimedia