Applying Filmmaking Tools and
Techniques to Interaction Design
Why film?
Orchestration
How do you coordinate something with so many
    moving parts to achieve desired effect?
Orchestration
    Actors
   Dialogue
   Scenery
    Sound
    Action
The Filmmaking Process
Screenplay & Script > Storyboards & Design >
      Raw Footage > Final Edited Film
Beat Sheets
Beat Sheets
Scene-by-Scene Outline
• Plot Points

• Actions

• Effect on the Audience
Beat Sheets
Use in interaction design?
The Software Design Process
       Task Flows > Sketches / Wireframes >
Prototype & Visual Designs > Final Developed Product
How do we keep emotion in the
forefront of the design process?
To Be Replaced

Beat Sheets
Annotated Task Flows
• Emotional state of the user

• Emotional goals of the system
Communication
Mise en Scène
Set Design    Lighting  Staging
       Acting    Costume
Motion
How does motion communicate?
Motion
Early filmmakers didn’t have sound, dialogue or color
  Speech/title cards were used as little as possible
Motion
The bad guy enters on the right.
Motion: Diagonals
Top to Bottom: Inevitability, Anticipation
        Bottom to Top: Struggle
The Camera
Control of the camera means control of the eye.
Rack Focus
        Little to no camera movement
              No complex actions
Camera shifts focus from one element to another
Rack Focus
Use in interaction design?
Where else can this go?
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Applying Filmmaking Tools and Techniques to Interaction Design