Re: [Fsf-friends] Movie

On 11/06/07, Mani A a.mani.cms@gmail.com wrote:

There are various ways of writing movie stories. Optimal ones are those that are inductive enough to be seen as specifications of the final product. One way of writing it is by successive refinement of a certain minimal version.

Well, what am I suggesting ?

AFAIK, storyboarding is how films are written, and then the script is flashed out in a word processor/text editor specialised for the task. Inkscape could be extended for this.

http://returnself.com/ is a proprietary Mac OS X application that is well designed in this way, although specifically for novels it shows the kind of specialisation in user interface that's good to have