PACE: Precise AI Cinematic Expression: A Typed Specification for Script-Grounded Previsualization and Geometric Conformance
Between a screenplay and a film sits a planning problem that is spatial first: who stands where, and what a camera sees from where it stands.
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What happened
Between a screenplay and a film sits a planning problem that is spatial first: who stands where, and what a camera sees from where it stands. An image diffusion model asked for a shot in free text settles that plan by its own defaults. We present PACE (Precise AI Cinematic Expression), a typed representation for the plan: the screenplay evidence, the characters, props and locations it needs, where each subject stands, and what the camera does. A value is written once at the level it belongs to (script, scene, shot or panel) and inherited below it. A compiler turns the result into both the prompt sent to the diffusion model and a 3D scene built in metres, and a camera solver places the camera so that the declared framing is the framing built.
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