Design of an interactive authoringtool for creating branchedvideo : Design av ett interaktivt författarverktyg för att skapa grenadevideor

Abstract: With the release of ”Bandersnatch” in 2018, an interactive movie where the viewermakes choices that affects the outcome of the story, we know that successful interactivemovies are possible and appreciated. Although this technology already exists the possibilitiesare seemingly limitless. Perhaps in the future, movies could take certain paths basedon a predetermined profile of a viewer or by scanning facial expressions during the filmto determine what path that best suits the viewer. Interactive films and videos allows theviewer to interact with the storyline of the video. This technique is interesting from boththe user and developer perspective and introduces new challenges. To be able to have anoverview of the different possible branches of the video is helpful and needed in developmentof the media player and the branched video. When different possibles paths of thevideo emerges it can be difficult to keep track of all the different story lines. In this thesis,we make significant improvements to an existing authoring tool for a branched videoplayer. The authoring tool is to be used along side with a media player in order to facilitatethe development of a non-linear branched video. We will also be exploring what featuresof the authoring tool offer the most value to the user.