‘Cinema already exists right in the intersection between database and narrative’ Manovich

Because the production schedule dictates what is being filmed at what time it is never filmed in a linear fashion. So we can think of the footage going into a database and it is up to the editor to take from this and construct a narrative from this database.

The second reading = more on databases, but this guy (Seaman) authored a ‘complex virtual world generator… users can construct and navigate virtual worlds in real time…’. I don’t really have an interest in this but all I’ll say is it sounds cool.