Director's Cut - Analysis of VR Film Cuts for Interactive Storytelling ; International Conference on 3D Immersion (IC3D) 2018, Brussels, Belgium, 2018.

The usage of film cuts, or transitions, is a powerful technique in interactive storytelling to express the film story by leading the viewers attention. To explore how existing transition techniques are currently being used by professional 360◦ filmmakers, this paper investigates the impact of transitions and additional graphical elements from a storytelling perspective. We base this on the recently published Director’s Cut dataset [1] which contains professional 360◦ films with the directors’ intending viewing direction (i.e., director’s cut) and test subjects’ scan-paths. Our objective is to... Mehr ...