On the question of integrating Linux and FOSS into the general culture of the masses, maybe we can consider helping the film industry. Now if we are concerned about the size of impact, then we can consider developing the stories at least for the commercial kind of Indian Cinema. .. though the more meaningful version can also be done.
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 ?
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A. Mani
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
On 6/12/07, Dave Crossland dave@lab6.com wrote:
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.
storyboarding is for animated movies, For screen writing, there is this celtx (open source) http://www.celtx.com
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