Analyzing Elements of Style in Annotated Film Clips

Wu, Hui-Yin; Galvane, Quentin; Lino, Christophe; Christie, Marc

Analyzing Elements of Style in Annotated Film Clips

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Date

2017

Authors

Wu, Hui-Yin
Galvane, Quentin
Lino, Christophe
Christie, Marc

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

This paper presents an open database of annotated film clips together with an analysis of elements of film style related to how the shots are composed, how the transitions are performed between shots and how the shots are sequenced to compose a film unit. The purpose is to initiate a shared repository pertaining to elements of film style which can be used by computer scientists and film analysts alike. Though both research communities rely strongly on the availability of such information to foster their findings, current databases are either limited to low-level features (such as shots lengths, color and luminance information), contain noisy data, or are not available to the communities. The data and analysis we provide open exciting perspectives as to how computational approaches can rely more thoroughly on information and knowledge extracted from existing movies, and also provide a better understanding of how elements of style are arranged to construct a consistent message.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:wiced.20171068
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing
},
editor = {William Bares and Vineet Gandhi and Quentin Galvane and Remi Ronfard
},
title = {{Analyzing Elements of Style in Annotated Film Clips
}},
author = {Wu, Hui-Yin and 
Galvane, Quentin and 
Lino, Christophe and 
Christie, Marc
},
year = {2017
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {2411-9733
},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-031-4
},
DOI = {10.2312/wiced.20171068
}
}