International Journal of Advances in Science Engineering and Technology, ISSN(p): 2321 –8991, ISSN(e): 2321 –9009 Volume-6, Issue-4, Oct.-2018, http://iraj.in Image and Video Processing: An Ingenious Tool of Story Telling 57 IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING: AN INGENIOUS TOOL OF STORY TELLING DUSHYANT SOMVANSHI Assistant Professor, School of Film and Media Ajeenkya D Y Patil University, Pune, India E-mail: dushyantsomvanshi@gmail.com, dushyant.somvanshi@adypu.edu.in Abstract - Right from the existence of Homo sapiens (Humans), storytelling has existed. Primarily in an oral tradition, humans used storytelling as a method of preserving stories, history and cultural traditions of their ancestors. Verbal communication is one of the fundamental form of communication, whether or not humans once communicated with primitive grunts. As humans are social creatures, they use different mediums to communicate which also proves as an evidence of socialism of humans. Consequently, storytelling evolved from stone scripts to the digital and now it is further transforming to the immersive medium format. Different cultures documented their stories, history and also digitised it to preserve it. Many ways of storytelling developed along with the development of human being. The technology played a vital role in establishing various new formats of storytelling. Stone scriptures, literature, narrations, audio formats, recordings, paintings, visuals and audio-visuals etc. is the normal journey of storytelling. As the visual medium emerged the core part of it became the images which further transformed into video. Aesthetics and content of the storytelling is creatively enhanced with the help of various processes. Amongst which image processing is the most important. Image processing; the set of techniques used to modify a digital image in order to improve it (in terms of quality), or to reduce its size or to get information out of it. Digital image processing is a new sector of knowledge that has quickly developed due to the emergence of new information technologies. It simply relies on the information linked with mathematics, signal processing, electronic systems and the development in microprocessor computation capacities which have been exclusively developed for signal processing it offers high computation speed and capacity. In its early stages digital image processing and its scope of application is quite spread, due to which it has quickly become apparent that a methodology should be created and the domains of application separated out. This research gives spotlight on the analysis of multidimensional role of image and video processing in altering the complete way of contemporary storytelling. It deals with various aspects of audio-visual production process related to video and images. The main purpose of the study was to discuss the techniques and the thought process with respect to the technological aspect in digital storytelling. Keywords - Digital Storytelling, Image Processing, Electronic Systems, Video, Information Technology. INTRODUCTION Digital storytelling is used for interactivity, creating and sharing information and promoting immersion. Before understanding digital storytelling, we should first take into the consideration what exactly the traditional storytelling is. Storytelling can be described as prehistoric people exchanged information about the different types of environment, wildlife movements, or sources of food. This type of survival information was codified which was expanded by the inclusion of history, cultural mythology and tradition over the generations. The result of this was narratives which can be described as the recounting of event sequences land their meaning in various perspectives which were used by storytellers to preserve and share. Storytelling which consist of the plot, characters, indistinct and logical unfolding of events and a climax expanded to dramas, enactments and myth-based rituals. Stories help us to explain the different kind of roles of people in various events which may be seen and unseen events in the surrounding world and made them to inspire to undertake their extraordinary deeds, their journeys, or battles. As the technology evolved in the writing arena, stories were preserved which was further recognized as literature. In today’s world also written works are considered to have lasting artistic merit. Other forms like Narratives/dramas which have made the world comprehensible became mainstay of human culture. Joseph Campbell, found out that the re- enacting the myths as ritualistic participatory drama which generally involve narrative, music, and/or other audio sources by cultures around the world (Campbell, 1949). The immergence of computer and other audio-visual mediums into storytelling arena has blessed the society with a range of new approaches which give experiences that include direct participation by listeners, even co-creation of stories. It also provided the ease of creation and distribution to a broad audience which resulted into engaging, compelling emotional narrative formats, interactive and immersive narration experience, multidimensional narratives, non-linear and collaborative contexts which increase the ability to create and communicate. As the name suggest Digital storytelling is telling the stories digitally. Basically digital storytelling is the