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Introduction/Pitch
  Insert a really good one-liner here
Prior Art
  Ken Burns, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, etc.
Digital photography
  New ways to view, share, use images. More personal and dynamic media.
  What makes this better than a slideshow?
  What makes this really innovative?

Collaboration
  Industry research lab + cinema/media arts university
Development Process
Bruce Block aka Visual Components and Contrast/Affinity
  A formal system that can be used effectively in video generation
Cinema Metaphor
  The screen is a set as viewed by the camera and the images are actors.
System Design
  Specs, workflow
Metadata Design
  Subjective metadata, hand-tagging, similar or different from Flickr.com tags?
Controlling the performance
  MIDI controller, linear mapping to the 8 sliders, why those controls?
Searches on the metadata db
  SQL, "google-like" searches v. boolean searches
Cinematic Language Design
  Descriptive vocabulary for putting images on the screen
Shot Design
  XML for writing shot techniques, additive effect of combining
shots, solo techniques

Structure of the Performance
  "a day in the life", rising intensity, BB graphs
Los Angeles images
  1000+, a personal POV into the city, from the car, from the street
Music selection
  There is definitely going to be a question here about integration
and interaction with music.
Practicing the performance and iteration
  How much serendipity v. sensitivity?
  Retagging to correct for undesirable outcomes
The Performance setup
  Audience, projector + screen, 2 computers + 2 monitors, speakers

Video of the Performance

Future
  Improved interface for tagging, tech. design and performance
  Live tweaking of shots' characteristics
  Better tagging: automatic and manual
  Integrate music - how can this be done uniquely
Consumer version
Pre- and Post- production automated

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