The use of metadata on the development of interactive audiovisual narratives

• Grant number: 15/21963-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2016
• End date: December 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Video Arts
• Principal Investigator: José Armando Valente
• Grantee: Franco Araujo Simões
• Host Institution: Instituto de Artes (IA). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In her book, "Hamlet in the Hollodeck", Janet Murray (2003) describes the capacity that new media and the digital environment have to develop their own forms of expressivity, and the lack of practical efforts invested in the creation of products that explore them. This is the subject of research of many other theorists such as Espen Aarseth (1997) and Lev Manovich, who released the book, "The Language of New Media" (MANOVICH, 2001), and the project, "Soft Cinema" (KRATKY; MANOVICH, 2005), in which he implements the use of database narrative and algorithmic editing. This research is inspired by projects such as these, as well as the studies of new media and digital narratives. Theorists that established this research area combine the Procedimental property of the digital medium (by using the concepts of database narrative and algorithmic editing) and its Participative property (by using an interactive interface between the work and its user), to develop a model of an interactive audiovisual product, whose core aspect will be the use of metadata as an editing tool.