Preparing the channels

Channels are a core concept of automatic cinema. They are not only defining, how a performance should look, how many screens are served, which media is displayed (video, audio, text), but they can also be used to express different views of a story. Channels can be affirmative or contradictory, they can run very continuous or quite sparse.

$this->_channel_setup();

$this->ac_LOG("Channels configured.");

At this point, the already configured channels are extended with additional definitions. Calling the style database and referring to the channel-usage cloud, the following dimensions are added to the channel setup:

→ _contradiction
→ _continuity

This makes the channel-object looking as follows:

Array

(

	[channel_id] => stdClass Object

	(

		[id] => int

		[_name] => string

		[_type] => 0|1|2			(Video,Audio,Text)

		[_exclusive] => 0|1			(Overlapping or not)

		[_continuity] => -100|100

		[_contradiction] => -100|100

	)

	...

)