Simple Digital Movies

Film has now become a digital medium, and with the digital, interactivity often comes along.

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It may be that making interactive video could be almost as popular as making traditional home video, but this requires both simple tools and appealing genre examples. We will in this paper examine a simple hyperfilm structure for home video editing called stretchfilm, meaning a film that may become longer or shorter as the viewer wishes.

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Two prototype digital films made by the author will be examined here, one about a travel abroad, the other of a wedding. Amateur video makers often want to keep material that most viewers find tedious. In a stretchfilm, the boring details can be delegated to the stretched-out versions.

We will discuss two different ways of creating a stretchfilm story, together with two different user interfaces. Moving beyond home movies, we will discuss how stretchfilm also could be used for news and fiction.

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