What Happens in Films? (2005)
| Venue: | in Procs. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2005 Available: http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/personal/pg/A. Salway/pdfs/What Happens in Films FINAL.pdf |
| Citations: | 3 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Andrew05whathappens,
author = {Andrew Salway Andrew and Andrew Vassiliou and Khurshid Ahmad},
title = {What Happens in Films?},
booktitle = {in Procs. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2005 Available: http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/personal/pg/A. Salway/pdfs/What Happens in Films FINAL.pdf},
year = {2005}
}
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Abstract
This paper aims to contribute to the analysis and description of semantic video content by investigating what actions are important in films. We apply a corpus analysis method to identify frequently occurring phrases in texts that describe films - screenplays and audio description. Frequent words and statistically significant collocations of these words are identified in screenplays of 75 films and in audio description of 45 films. Phrases such as `looks at', `turns to', `smiles at' and various collocations of `door' were found to be common. We argue that these phrases occur frequently because they describe actions that are important story-telling elements for filmed narrative. We discuss how this knowledge helps the development of systems to structure semantic video content.
