Content related to "Staging-methods"

(1) Demo of Video Conducting the Olympic Games 2008: The iTV Field Trial of the EU-IST Project LIVE

In the EuroITV 2008 the LIVE project team will present an interactive audio-visual demo of the LIVE Video Conducting Concept to the attending research community. Carmen Mac Williams, Roland Westermaier, Torsten Kliemand, In: Proceedings of the EuroITV 2008: July 3 - 4, 2008, Salzburg, Austria.

(1) Knowledge Kit of novel iTV Formats (Report on D4.15)

This document provides an overview of the results of deliverable D4.15 - 'Knowledge Kit of novel iTV Formats', which consists of three parts - The KnowledgeKit-Wiki, which is a wiki page - The KnowledgeKit-Testbed, which consists of software delivered on CD and the documentation of the software on the web - The report on the KnowledgeKit-Wiki and the KnowledgeKit-Testbed (this document) with gives an overview on the Wiki and Testbed. The document explains the intended use and purpose of the Knowledge Kit. Two user groups are defined and described according to their level of experience, their tasks and goals and how they can benefit from the Knowledge Kit. Then the two components of the Knowledge Kit are described, the KnowledgeKit-Wiki and the KnowledgeKit-Testbed. The Wiki web site contains an expandable repository of terms, methods, definitions and best practices related to iTV. The Testbed is an easy to manage low cost test platform for creating simple mock-ups and design studies.

(1) Specifications of Concepts and Professional User Interfaces for Live Staging with Consumer Feedback

In this document we specify concepts for Live Staging and the planning for Live Staging. In addition – where possible – procedures are defined which facilitate the development of a concrete Live Staging Concept by bringing the primarily artistic and intuitive approaches for the creation of live stories to a more formal level.

(1) An end to interactive television production? Just the opposite

All stories have one beginning, one middle and one end. But with MECiTV’s interactive television (iTV) authoring platform, producers can easily create programmes in which viewers choose how the story unravels and ends.

(1) Initial Requirements Analysis

This deliverable was created out of the very first anaysis of the LIVE-requirements. On the one hand there are the requirements for the staging concepts and on the other hand the supporting and necessary technical requirements to fulfill the new developed workflows and tasks.

(1) Consumer Feedback Analysis and Presentation

This document is an input to the D4.5: Specifications of Concepts and Professional User Interfaces for Live Staging with Consumer Feedback.

(1) Methods, Design Guidelines and Workflows for Online Staging

EU Information Society Technologies – FP6-27312, Report D4.3, EU-IST Project 'Live: Live Staging of Media Events', 2006. After describing the conceptual background which is necessary for the development of future live staging TV formats, this document proposes both visionary as well as first concrete methods and design guidelines for online staging. In addition considerations on the respective future workflows and the results of a first survey on suitable live video performance tools are presented.

(1) Future Live iTV Production: Challenges and Opportunities

Paper presented at the AXMEDIS 2006: Second International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-Channel Distribution, December 13 - 15, 2006, Leeds, UK. Proceedings pp. 325-328. Today's TV broadcasting companies are highly professionalized in the production of linear TV formats. Workflows and technologies for these linear formats are reliable, the production personnel is highly skilled and we can trust in well-known viewing habits of the consumers. The key issue of this paper is: how do we enable such a broadcasting working environment to produce by far more variable, multi-perspective or interactive TV formats? We are especially interested in formats entailing a multitude of live audiovisual material like for example sport events or elections, which shall be transformed into an interactive TV event for the consumer at home. This paper is not concerned with the variety of technical problems the interactive TV paradigm leads to, but with questions of future tools and practices on the producers' side, levels of consumer personalization and the respective consumer interfaces to make digital content accessible.

(1) Video Conducting the Olympic Games 2008: The iTV Field Trial of the EU-IST Project LIVE

In the upcoming field trial of LIVE a Video Conductor and his team at the public Austrian TV Station ORF will stage a live non linear multi-perspective show around the Olympic Games 2008 with the instant feedback of 500 invited Austrian Telecom IPTV test end users. The aim of the field trial is to improve the public TV service to the Austrian public by dynamically linking multistream videos as the live event of the Olympic Games 2008 and as the viewers demand it. The Video Conductor ensures a quality of drama by linking the multi-stream videos responding to the unfolding sport action and the audience’s mood. Carmen Mac Williams, Richard Wages; In: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts, DIMEA 2008, September 10 - 12, 2008, Athens, Greece

(1) Paper ICEC 2007: A Novel System for Interactive Live TV

In this work we describe our vision of next generation live iTV formats, which consist of a broadcast bouquet of meaningfully interwoven and cross-referencing parallel sub-channels covering a single live event in multi-view or even several concurring live events. At the same time these sub-channels have to serve a diversity of consumer interests and moods. To achieve this future live broadcasting production teams will need both, artistic and conceptual patterns to create such live formats, as well as a maximum technological support to realise such shows in real-time. We describe our developed foundational components of the envisaged system, which according to our approach consist of a set of live staging concepts, a framework for the management of intelligent media assets and a recommender system. Furthermore we argue for the integration of knowledge and sophistication achieved by live audio-visual artists, namely Video Jockeys, who hence participated in our first live staging tests. We conclude with a short description of our next step, the integration of instant consumer feedback, to complete the system for the upcoming field trial during the 2008 Olympics.

(1) Paper eChallenges 2007: Next Generation Live iTV Formats and Aesthetics: A Joint Scientific and Artistic Approach

In this work we describe our vision of next generation live iTV formats, which consist of a broadcast bouquet of meaningfully interwoven and cross-referencing parallel sub-channels covering a single live event in multi-view or even several concurring live events. At the same time these sub-channels have to serve a diversity of consumer interests and moods. To achieve this future live broadcasting production teams will need both, artistic and conceptual patterns to create such live formats, as well as a maximum technological support to realise such shows in real-time. We describe our developed foundational components of the envisaged system, which according to our approach consist of a set of live staging concepts, a framework for the management of intelligent media assets and a recommender system. Furthermore we argue for the integration of knowledge and sophistication achieved by live audio-visual artists, namely Video Jockeys, who hence participated in our first live staging tests. We conclude with a short description of our next step, the integration of instant consumer feedback, to complete the system for the upcoming field trial during the 2008 Olympics.

(1) Guidelines and Methods for Staging Live Media Events

D4.1 Guidelines and Methods for Staging Live Media Events, Deliverable of WP4 in LIVE. Ee explain our LIVE WP4 research roadmap for staging live digital TV content. The role of the Video Conductor at this stage of development should be seen as a visionary goal guiding our work. The user tests will help us to clarify and form the role of the Video Conductor in the first project phase. We are staging constructive test scenarios (bottom up approach), which will lead us to new methods and guidelines for live staging.

(1) Journal Paper JVRB 2007 Vol.4: Video Composer and Live Video Conductor: Future Professions for the Interactive Digital Broadcasting Industry

Innovations in hardware and network technologies lead to an exploding number of non-interrelated parallel media streams. Per se this does not mean any additional value for consumers. Broadcasting and advertisement industries have not yet found new formats to reach the individual user with their content. In this work we propose and describe a novel digital broadcasting framework, which allows for the live staging of (mass) media events and improved consumer personalisation. In addition new professions for future TV production workflows which will emerge are described, namely the 'video composer' and the 'live video conductor'. online publication: http://www.jvrb.org/4.2007/1076/