Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 2

So I've got a movie which is a murder mystery in a mansion. Various people go to different rooms at different times. And some of this happens offscreen but is described or implied in later scenes.

I want to make a representation of this that I can scroll through, possibly even synched to the movie. Like I'd want to be able to map an animated map of the mansion and show who is where, when.

Any ideas with what software would be good for this/how should I represent this?

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 2
I could start at the end of the movie -> digital representation of timeline of pawns moving about -> movie-synch'd animation, but that'd be a lot of video editing and I don't enjoy that much. I want to be doing as little of that as possible, and as much of automating some representation -> video renderer
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 2

which'll probably be little icons moving around a 2D* map

* hopefully.

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 2
all the ways I can think of doing this are a little too annoying, and I'm hoping someone has an idea on how to do this that wouldn't horribly suck
Show threadAirelle 🕸
@foone I suppose if I were to do it, I'd do:
- one pass time-stamping who is where textually
- make a digital floor plan (à la Clue) of the place
- map textual places to pixel coordinates on that plan
- map people to their sprite, now I'd have a CSV file of time stamps, sprites and positions
- animate the map/sprites using whatever (pyxel ? Pygame ?) into a video
- PiP the (mini)map into a corner of the video.
Mar 2 at 6:33amWeb