The Stratification System - A Design Emvironment for Random Access

Content of a movie is produced in two different types of design environments. The first is the design environment of shooting where a camera is used to capture what is happening at a particular place and time. The second is the design environment of editing where the rushes are interpreted relative to a movie maker's intent. Annotation of the video stream allows the movie maker to make decisions based on specific content of video and in the best case enables a machine to help in that process.