Patent Document ID: 7725830
Application ID: 10893843

Base Claim:
1. A system for assembling a narration from one or more digital display media components, comprising: an input device, the input device operable to allow a user to select the one or more digital display media components and regions thereof; an output device, the output device operable to display the one or more digital display media components; a storage device, the storage device operable to record narration relating to the one or more digital display media components and simultaneously to record manual user indications of one or more locations in each of the digital display media components; and a digital multimedia production process, the digital multimedia production process operable to automatically perform cinematic display manipulations to form a digital multimedia production in accordance with the recorded narration and selected digital display media components and regions thereof, the automatically performed cinematic display manipulations including; analyzing the user's indications of the digital display media components and regions; determining cinematic rules corresponding to the user's indications with the digital display media components and regions; applying the cinematic rules to the digital display media components and regions; and performing cinematic image manipulation between the digital display media components or regions based on the applied cinematic rules.

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Claim 11:
11. The system of claim 1 , wherein a candidate location is identified from the manual user indications.