Advanced Content Annotation
Frameline's Advanced Content Annotation Fields are 'Value' & 'Plot Stage'
Value
You can assign Values to Segments in both Who & Thread tags. Adding Values enables advanced filtering & repurposing workflows such as making Condensed TV. To activate the Value Tag, double or cmd + click on one of the Quick-Tag Buttons, then click on the Value pop-up:
You will then be presented with five 'value' choices. In Who for example, if a character is only in the background of a scene & doesn't contribute to the dialogue, you would label their 'value to the segment' as either 'Optional' or 'No Value'. If the Character is the main focus of the scene, you would label them 'Vital' to the Segment.
In Thread, Value applies to the particular Storyline, so in Star Wars for example, the scene in which Luke discovers that Darth Vader is his father would be labeled 'Vital' to the 'Family' Thread of the film, but labeled 'No Value' to the (primary) 'Struggle against the Empire' Thread.
Once a Video has been fully annotated with Values, you can use the Filter to create a new timeline. For example in Star Wars, I could filter for only segments threads labeled 'Vital' to produce a Condensed Version of the Film.
Plot Stage
Plot Stage is the most esoteric tag in the current Frameline schema. The Stage tags represent a modern interpretation and expansion of Todorov’s* basic model for narrative analysis:
Recommended Use: Narrative Modeling & Analysis.
Narrative structures usually have a beginning, middle and an end. To be fulfilling for the viewer/reader, simply reaching an end is not enough. Narrative involves a causal transformation – i.e. there is some sort of logical change. There are some common features across most narratives (maybe all) in terms of the stages involved in this transformation.
There are two types of model: synchronic and diachronic. Synchronic means analytic and diachronic means historical, so a synchronic study looks at the relationships between elements and a diachronic study looks at how the narrative evolves. For Frameline we are concerned with both types of study but under an overarching syntagmatic (sequential) framework, since we are interested in the construction of the narrative over time, in order that we can efficiently deconstruct it into linear units.
*Tzvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian philosopher who did extensive research into narrative structure.
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