After all that work, I finally found something that's exciting. These are some (very crudely) photoshopped pictures of the mockup. It's going to be alot more work, but that's fine with me. It still contains the good points of my previous design, but it's got more framing possibilites. That's the ideo; I want to be able to frame shots with architecture, beams, etc. Still needs work, but the core idea is there.