Mise en Scène: A Film Scholarship Augmented Reality Mobile Application

Abstract

Traditional film scholarship publication methods — an arrangement of texts and still images on
printed paper — inhibit an author’s ability to accurately convey the aural and kinetic nature of the
medium. With information overlaid onto reality by Augmented Reality (AR) technology the gap between static text and still imagery and aural and kinetic digital media is drastically reduced. This paper describes the development of a film scholarship AR mobile application for film scholarship that provides an aural and kinetic experience for readers by allowing them to access augmented, multimedia content in real time. AR is utilized by this application for its ability to connect digitally enhanced views of the real world with meaningful content. Mise en Scène is an AR technology mobile application that allows for extra information to be augmented and displayed
by tracking still images and text in academic publications. Mise en Scène was developed and implemented as a student service-learning class project following agile software development methodology.