System and method for describing a scene for a piece of media

1. A method for describing a scene for a piece of media, the method comprising:

receiving a raw script;

transforming, using a computer implemented script authoring tool, the raw script automatically into an electronic script in a mark-up language, the electronic script containing a scene having one or more shots wherein each shot has one or more splitscenes wherein each splitscene involves at least one actor who appears in the one or more shots;

wherein the transforming of the raw script into the electronic script further comprises automatically inserting mark-up language into the raw script, using the computer implemented script authoring tool, for each shot in the raw script;

wherein automatically inserting the mark-up language into the raw script further comprises inserting a plurality of blocking instructions into the raw script wherein each blocking instruction is used by a computer based director that directs the actor in the shot to a particular position during the shot that are a blocking direction for the shot, inserting a plurality of camera directions into the raw script wherein each camera direction is used by the computer based director that sets one or more camera parameters for a camera capturing the actor during the shot that define one or more camera parameters for the shot and inserting sync data having a file path, start time and end time for each splitscene that is used by a computer based zipper to combine the splitscenes into a piece of media.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising inserting, for each shot, a line of dialog for a particular actor in the shot.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising inserting, for each shot, a sync code into the electronic script that indicates whether the shot can be done asynchronously.

4. A system for describing a scene for a piece of media, comprising:

a processor;

a store that contains a raw script;

a memory having instructions stored thereon wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to be configured to:

receive the raw script;

transform the raw script automatically into an electronic script in a mark-up language, the electronic script containing a scene having one or more shots wherein each shot has one or more splitscenes wherein each splitscene involves at least one actor who appears in the one or more shots;

automatically insert into the raw script, using mark-up language, a plurality of blocking instructions into the raw script wherein each blocking instruction is used by a computer based director that directs the actor in the shot to a particular position during the shot that are a blocking direction for the shot;

automatically insert into the raw script, using mark-up language, a plurality of camera directions into the raw script wherein each camera direction is used by the computer based director that sets one or more camera parameters for a camera capturing the actor during the shot that define one or more camera parameters for the shot; and

automatically insert sync data having a file path, start time and end time for each splitscene that is used by a computer based zipper to combine the splitscenes into a piece of media.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein each shot further comprises a line of dialog for a particular actor in the shot.

6. The system of claim 4 , wherein each shot further comprises a sync code that indicates whether the shot can be done asynchronously.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the actor includes one of a puppet, a person, an avatar and a robot.

8. The system of claim 4 , wherein the actor includes one of a puppet, a person, an avatar and a robot.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the raw script further comprises receiving one of a user generated script, a licensed script and a public domain script.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the raw script further comprises receiving one of a video script, a theatrical script, a television script, a play script, a speech script, a debate transcription and a dialog-less scene.

11. The system of claim 4 , wherein the raw script further comprises one of a user generated script, a licensed script and a public domain script.

12. The system of claim 4 , wherein the raw script further comprises one of a video script, a theatrical script, a television script, a play script, a speech script, a debate transcription and a dialog-less scene.