Topics include:

• Camera path planning
• Visibility computation
• Viewpoint entropy
• Navigation techniques and proximal exploration
• Interactive camera control metaphors
• Approaches to framing and composition of individual shots
• Automatic lighting design
• Intelligent staging and blocking of virtual lights, cameras and actors
• Expressive performance of virtual characters
• Intelligent video editing tools
• Efficient algorithms for camera placement and shot sequence selection
• Natural user interfaces for camera control and video editing
• Parallels between cinematic and linguistic communication
• Cognitive models of the comprehension of virtual cinematics
• Re-cinematography, re-lighting and re-framing of live-action video
• Computer-assisted multi-camera production
• Virtual cinematography as a pre-visualisation 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 user experience
• Interactive and generative cinema
• Cinematic serious game and applications
• Collaborative visual storytelling
• Non-linear storytelling
• Transmedia storytelling
• Creativity in cinematic communication