John
Consider
The talk of wireframe mode is alive in well in Premiere Pro even in Premiere CS6
http://creativeclouduser.com/looking-for-a-wireframe-mode-in-premiere-pro-try-the-transfor m-button/
where it seems to target the preview window bounding box, scaling, and repositioning etc.
Other Premiere CS6 references exists to this point of view, but since this is a Premiere Elements question.....
So in that context, there should be no problem going to the Premiere Elements 8.0/8.0.1 Properties Palette/Motion Panel expanded to find comparable features.
But I am not completely sure what lilthea's associates have envisioned for this "long shot" recorded video.
Right now I am favoring my interpretation of the associates "wire framing" as described in a prior post in this thread.
ATR