Research And Development Of TV Play Script Creation Aiding Software Based On Model-Driven Architecture

TV Play,a kind of narrative art work,is suitable for family watching,which use modern electronic video technology,audio-visual art language and theatrical performance.With the continuous development of the cultural and creative industries,the TV play has become one of the pillars of the content industry,not only affecting people’s ideas and lifestyles,but also creating market economy benefits.The TV play script is a blueprint of planning and depicting a TV play by means of literary creation,which is the basis for determining the quality of a TV play.However,the traditional creative methods are mainly used in the field of TV play script currently,and there is still a lack of efficient computer creation aids,which is difficult to meet the growing demand for TV plays and new ways of collaborative creation.Different from TV play script and its creation which belong to the category of literature or social science,computer software and its development belong to the category of science and technology.However,there is a great similarity between the two.First,the substance and value of TV play scripts and software lie in the information or content they carry.Second,both of them are artifacts with considerable complexity,which is difficult to carry out effective creation or development with simple methods.At present,standardized and industrial development has been achieved in the domain of software.In comparison,the TV play script creation is still in the stage of individual “technique” as a whole which is similar to the program development before the birth of the software engineering.With the rapid development of the cultural and creative industries and the Internet,the methods and tools for TV play script creation need to keep pace with the times now.Paying attention to the similarity between TV play script and software,the idea of computer science and software engineering was applied to the field of TV play script creation in this thesis.The model-driven architecture for TV play script creation was proposed.The TV play script modeling language was defined and aiding software was developed to better help writers or screenwriters(team)create TV play scripts efficiently.The main contents of this thesis are as follows:(1)A model-driven architecture for TV play script creation was explored and proposed.Inspired by the separation between "story" and discourse in narrative,the method of model-driven architecture(MDA)in computer field was introduced into the TV play script creation,and a model-driven architecture for TV play script creation was proposed.Some related concepts,the complete TV play script(story)modeling process,and supporting or auxiliary tools involved in this architecture were explained.The significance and advantages of the architecture were illustrated from the perspective of reusing(adaptation),visual creation,team creation,etc.(2)A new modeling language for TV play script was designed and defined.The writers or screenwriters can use the modeling language to describe the TV play script,and establish a visual model of the TV play script.The basic concepts,relationships and integrity constraints of TV play script domain were designed.The abstract syntax,concrete syntax and semantic of the TV play script modeling language were defined based on the GOPPRR meta-meta model of MetaEdit+,which is the most mature commercial meta-modeling tool system.(3)A TV play script creation aiding software(prototype)was designed and implemented to support the model-driven architecture for TV play script creation and the definition of modeling language for TV play script.The main functions of it include story modeling,TV play script modeling,model transformation(story model-TV play script model-TV play script)and format TV play script generation.Analysing the needs of the screenwriters,and refering to the related functions and interface design of screenwriting software and modeling tools,detailed demand analysis and design were carried out for the aiding tool.The aiding tool for supporting TV play script creation was realized based on MetaEdit+.(4)The usage of TV play script creation aiding software was explained and evaluated.Combined with an example,the main functions,usage of the software and possible advantages were demonstrated.The software was evaluated from two aspects of modeling language and software comparison analysis.Finally,the problems,shortcomings and the preliminary ideas for further improvement were explained.The research in this thesis is an application of MDA methodology in a new domain,hoping to make some contributions to enriching the methods and tools of TV play script creation and add some new elements to the application of MDA.