[ajani]

It's not clear what the idea is here. Which is why all the questions. I suspect, as you said, that a much more complex data structure would be required to encode all the various aspects of production into its constituent elements and the relations between the elements.

I would guess, that the first step would be to establish how the process of production (screenplay, scenes, camera angles, locations etc.) relates to the final product: scene frames. Each scene must have many shared elements as well. That would have to be encoded too.