Tech Papers 2019: This paper summarizes the development and real-world application of an Object-Based Media toolkit, highlighting its use in interactive productions and lessons learned from collaboration with producers and audiences.
Abstract
In our IBC2017 paper [1] we described our experiences with Object-Based Media (OBM) and outlined our aims for developing a toolkit to enable authors to make such experiences quickly and easily. Here, we describe the progress we have made developing this toolkit. We show how its development was shaped by collaborations with producers: first, how the data model and player were shaped by working with the BBC Arts programme MAKE! Craft Britain and second, how the tools and player were trialled at a workshop during the 2018 Encounters Film Festival in Bristol. We then describe the impact of two long-form productions on the tools.
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