Learning and transferring movie styles

There is currently a lot of interest in analyzing large movie databases to automatically extract film style and aesthetics [1,2]. This analysis has, however, been largely limited to identifying the duration, size, color and motion of movie shots. While these low-level details are pertinent, they do not provide a high-level understanding of cinematography, such as identifying the inherent style in a movie. Ultimately, they are unable to answer challenging questions such as, can we identify the author of a movie clip? Can we generative movie shots in the style of a given director or cinematographer ? can we generate shot sequences on the style of a given director or film editor ?