Alan F. Smeaton
ABSTRACT
Movie trailers, or previews, are an important method of advertising movies. They are extensively shown before movies in cinemas, as well as on television and increasingly, over the Internet. Making a trailer is a creative process, in which a number of shots from a movie are selected in order to entice a viewer in to paying to see the full movie. Thus, the creation of these trailers is an integral part in the promotion of a movie. Action movies in particular rely on trailers as a form of advertising as it is possible to show short, exciting portions of an action movie, which are likely to appeal to the target audience. This paper presents an approach which automatically selects shots from action movies in order to assist in the creation of trailers. A set of audiovisual features are extracted that aim to model the characteristics of shots typically present in trailers, and a support vector machine is utilised in order to select the relevant shots. The approach taken is not particularly novel but the results show that the process may be used in order to ease the trailer creation process or to facilitate the creation of variable length, or personalised trailers.
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- Automatically selecting shots for action movie trailers
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