Merabti, BillalWu, Hui-YinSanokho, Cunka BassirouGalvane, QuentinLino, ChristopheChristie, MarcW. Bares and M. Christie and R. Ronfard2015-04-272015-04-272015978-3-905674-79-82411-9733https://doi.org/10.2312/wiced.20151079A multitude of annotation tools and annotation formats for the analysis of audiovisual documents are available and address a wide range of tasks (see Elan [SW08] and Anvil [Kip10]). Existing approaches however remain restricted in the visual elements they can annotate on the screen: for example annotating on-screen arrangements of characters so as to evaluate continuity editing over shots is problematic with most annotation tools and languages. In this paper, we propose an annotation language broadly suited to analytical and generative cinematography systems. The language observes the axes of timing, spatial composition, hierarchical film structure, and link to contextual elements in the film in a way that extends previous contributions.10.2312/wiced.2015107957-57