Leveraging machinima to characterize comprehension of character motivation

Abstract

Deliberation-driven reflective sequences, or DDRSs, are cinematic idioms used by film makers to convey the motivations for characters adopting a particular course of action in a story. We report on an experiment where the cinematic generation system Ember was used to create a cinematic sequence with variants making different choices for DDRS use around a single decision point for a single character.