#algorithmic editing

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It has been argued that the Internet and social media increase the number of available viewpoints, perspectives, ideas and opinions available, leading to a very diverse pool of information. However,...

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It will be very hard for people to watch and consume something that not in some sense has been tailored for them

Eric Schmidt, google

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I will soon begin exploring our options around automated (algorithmic) video processing. The idea is that the software will take in content hosted on third party sites such as YouTube, Facebook or Instagram and using identifying tags string together sections of related content. Users can then dynamically navigate through extensive user-generated content and transition as seamlessly as possible from one video clip to the next to explore common themes and build up an experience of the universal conventions of travelling.

The music video for The Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar is a beautiful example of seamlessly stitching together segments of travelling shots - albeit with a bit more than algorithmic transitions.

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In his books “Film Form” and “The Film Sense”, pioneer film director Sergei Eisenstein developed and extensively studied montage, a process of assembling, juxtaposing, overlaying and overlapping images over time. He treated montage not merely as a series of visual techniques but as a methodology that conveyed meaning beyond that given by filmed content. Eisenstein described five formal categories of montage: metric, rhythmic, tonal, overtonal and intellectual. These montage types were guided by different rules of construction and assorted treatments of the part-whole relationship; many of them functioned according to musical principles.

Sources: http://www.rasa.net/writings/alchemicalframes.html

http://socks-studio.com/2011/04/21/sergei-eisenstein-sequences-diagrams-for-alexander-nevsky-and-battleship-potemkin/

http://www.cinegraphic.net/article.php?story=20110409100140227

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Filmmaker Guy Maddin on cinematic séances and the Brakhage Symposium

Filmmaker Guy Maddin says that watching a movie has more in common with a paranormal séance than meets the eye; he remembers the first time he realized that the French word for a movie screening is "séance," which translates into "a sitting." Both activities take place in the dark; both...

Guy Maddin’s Algorithmic Cinema