Topics include:

• Approaches to framing and composition of individual shots
• Automatic lighting design
• Intelligent staging and blocking in dynamic environments
• Expressive performance of characters
• Intelligent editing tools
• Camera-driven control of NPCs and virtual characters and sets
• Efficient algorithms for camera placement
• Shot sequence selection and the determination of high-level constraints for the content of shots
• Integrating elements of user interaction with traditional non-interactive camera control
• Parallels between cinematic and linguistic communication
• Cognitive models of the comprehension of virtual cinematics
• Virtual cinematography as a pre-visualization tool for real-world filming
• Intelligent tools and novel interfaces for in-game cinematics, replays, and machinima
• Intelligent generation of comic book layouts
• Evaluation methodologies and results of user experience of virtual cinematics
• Collaborative visual storytelling
• Creativity in cinematic communication