Camera 1, CU on George front screencenter and Marty 3/4 backright screenleft. George and Marty are in chair and near bar. (a) Scene specification (b) Automated placement of camera and characters (c) Resulting shot enforcing the scene specification Figure 1: Automated staging for a simple scene, from a high-level language specification (a) to the resulting shot (c). Our system places both actors and camera in the scene. Three constraints are displayed in (b): Close-up on George (green), George seen from the front (blue), and George screencenter, Marty screenleft (red). The white camera is the location of the computed camera.

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