Cinematic Techniques for Mobile Presentations

This work is about the use of dynamically produced video clips to present information on the small screen of a PDA. These video clips are part of a museum guide and are built as sequences of pictures synchronized with a dynamic audio commentary. The transitions among the pictures are planned according to cinematic techniques. The theoretical background is presented, discussing the language of cinematography and the Rhetorical Structure Theory to analyze dependency relationships inside a text. The results of a preliminary evaluation are also presented and discussed.