Introducing Viewpoints
Generate ∞ Story Objects
Viewpoints is a powerful new tool from Lore Machine that detects and visualizes all objects in a scene, exponentially increasing the variety of building blocks for your multimedia story.
Now, when you synthesize a book, podcast or screenplay, Viewpoints generates a cluster of variegated images around each segment of story text. This means superior scene coverage, richer worlds and an expanded surface area for creative expression!
Viewpoints now comes built-in to all workflows at Lore Machine Dot World. You can read more about the philosophy and implementation of Viewpoints below.
Spoiler Alert: The following contains plot details from the Netflix series Ripley.
Viewpoints in the Wild
What would Lord of the Rings be without the One Ring? Or The Big Lebowski without The Rug? Characters seem like the most important part of a story. But ambient objects that surround all the dialogue play a vital role in immersive entertainment.
Glowing hero objects like the examples above aren’t always delivered at a rate of one per film. A single scene can house an army of plot-bearing paraphernalia.
In episode 5 of the Netflix miniseries Ripley, con man Tom Ripley hides away in Rome under the stolen identity of a man he’s just murdered. Tom rents a luxurious penthouse, then goes shopping for stuff - an ash tray, some records. Moments after returning to his ill-gotten pad, Tom receives a phone call. It’s Freddie, a friend of Tom’s victim. Freddie is downstairs and wants to come up. It’s an unwelcome intrusion into Tom’s new life and the web of lies it’s built on. In an excruciating apartment scene, Freddie grills Tom about their friend’s whereabouts.
The scene consists of 35 shots. 16 of these shots are character interaction, which certainly drives the scene’s tension. But it’s the 19 shots of inanimate objects around the apartment that tell the deeper story - highlighted here:
The sheer amount of props packed into the seven-minute scene is impressive: a Maine Coone cat, a birdcage elevator, marble stairs, a telephone, a garish robe, an LP of Mina’s ‘Il Cielo In Una Stanza’, a record player, a half-finished painting, a ring, a Murano Glass ash tray, a heavy wooden door, a US passport, a typewriter, a tabletop bar, and a matching pair of Ferragamo loafers. Each one of these objects is brimming with meaning from previous scenes and foretells the story that lies ahead.
Inside Viewpoints
Lore Machine works by synthesizing story text into metadata that is retrieved to formulate fleets of prompts, arranged in narrative sequence. These prompts run through workflows to uphold style, location and character consistency, ultimately generating interconnected story graphics.
Like us humans, Lore Machine hones in on characters, resulting in visuals that prioritize human subjects. This leaves other scene components like props and locations out of the picture…until now.
Viewpoints reroutes this fixation on characters by creating prompt variations that slice each segment of scene text into different, well, points of view.
Here’s an aerial shot of how Viewpoints works:
The result is more, different, better. Here’s imagery generated from a 2,100-word short story before Viewpoints, and after:
How 2 Viewpoint
While Lore Machine is now turbocharged with these newfound powers, the interface remains mostly the same. You can write a story using Lore Machine’s editor, upload a PDF or FDX file or generate story text using World Builder.
You will feel the Viewpoint difference upon generating your Storyboard. Each scene now contains a feature image and a stack of Viewpoints. To explore your Viewpoints, simply toggle Viewpoints to <on> in the top-right of your Storyboard and explore!
In your Editor, you can now add a Viewpoint by selecting a scene in the right rail and then clicking <+ New Viewpoint> just above your prompt box.
It’s our hope that this drastically expanded collection of Viewpoints gives you more ideas and ultimately helps you tell better stories!
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