This document discusses applying filmmaking techniques to interaction design. It introduces concepts like beat sheets, which provide scene-by-scene outlines including plot points, actions, and how it affects the audience. Beat sheets can be used to annotate task flows in software design to keep the user's emotional state and goals in focus. Film techniques like mise en scène, motion, and rack focus are also discussed, with suggestions for how they could inform interaction design approaches. The overall goal is to bring more emotion and storytelling into the design process.

1. Applying Filmmaking Tools and
Techniques to Interaction Design

2. Why film?

3. Orchestration
How do you coordinate something with so many
moving parts to achieve desired effect?

4. Orchestration
Actors
Dialogue
Scenery
Sound
Action

5. The Filmmaking Process
Screenplay & Script > Storyboards & Design >
Raw Footage > Final Edited Film

6. Beat Sheets

7. Beat Sheets
Scene-by-Scene Outline
• Plot Points
• Actions
• Effect on the Audience

8. Beat Sheets
Use in interaction design?

9. The Software Design Process
Task Flows > Sketches / Wireframes >
Prototype & Visual Designs > Final Developed Product

10. How do we keep emotion in the
forefront of the design process?

11. To Be Replaced
Beat Sheets
Annotated Task Flows
• Emotional state of the user
• Emotional goals of the system

12. Communication

13. Mise en Scène
Set Design Lighting Staging
Acting Costume

14. Motion
How does motion communicate?

15. Motion
Early filmmakers didn’t have sound, dialogue or color
Speech/title cards were used as little as possible

16. Motion
The bad guy enters on the right.

18. Motion: Diagonals
Top to Bottom: Inevitability, Anticipation
Bottom to Top: Struggle

19. The Camera
Control of the camera means control of the eye.

20. Rack Focus
Little to no camera movement
No complex actions
Camera shifts focus from one element to another

22. Rack Focus
Use in interaction design?

23. Where else can this go?

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