  Reality TV shows that follow people in their day-to-day lives are not a new
concept. However, the traditional methods used in the industry require a lot of
manual labour and need the presence of at least one physical camera man.
Because of this, the subjects tend to behave differently when they are aware of
being recorded. This paper will present an approach to follow people in their
day-to-day lives, for long periods of time (months to years), while being as
unobtrusive as possible. To do this, we use unmanned cinematographically-aware
cameras hidden in people's houses. Our contribution in this paper is twofold:
First, we create a system to limit the amount of recorded data by intelligently
controlling a video switch matrix, in combination with a multi-channel
recorder. Second, we create a virtual camera man by controlling a PTZ camera to
automatically make cinematographically pleasing shots. Throughout this paper,
we worked closely with a real camera crew. This enabled us to compare the
results of our system to the work of trained professionals.
