Author: Vivian Wei

This week is still working on 360 filmmaking.

we had an Academic Support talk in the morning about Time management and working independently, it’s helpful to me because it tells me roughly how long I should be working each week, although I think I might not be able to strict myself to the time that I should be working, but it’s good to know how much work I am been expected in my own time.

In the afternoon, we went to creative tech lab, we get to know what we can do in the lab, what we can book to use and different class that we can go to.

We got in touch with 360 filmmaking using 360 cameras, introduced to what After effects can do and how we can edit our video. I found it a little bit hard and complicated but it’s interesting to learn about the professional video editor. We were also being showed to different types of 360 cameras and how they work, also had a go with connecting a 360 camera to our phone by downloading an app called Theta to see how the video looks like. Then we had a look at an interactive film from black mirror called bendersnatch, which lead us to our first project: 360 filmmaking. Bendersnetch has a lot of different options to choose which will cause different endings, most of the choices lead us to an end, but there’s also options that’s purely for engaging the audience to the film more.

After all, we went onto Stornaway.io had a very quick paly with the website to see how to put the videos together. We spend the rest of the day walking around the school filming different scenes and talking about different ideas we might use for our group project. Our group spend quite a long time on how we can make the film more interesting, so we didn’t have much scene filmed and we decide to take videos in our own time after having a clearer thought of the narrative.

This week we were introduced to the campus (facilities and different websites that we use for our course). After the induction, we were introduced to immersive media. It’s a type of media that was used by the creator that allows the viewer to feel that themselves are in the scene in person. This skill were used in some composition of religious paintings.

E.g. This painting called Holy Trinity by Masaccio shows the viewer and illusion of being present in this particular space. Most of this illusion comes from the composition of the painting, the artist put audience on the ground level, therefore the audience have a strong engaging to the work.

For immersive media nowadays, we have the technical skill called VR that allows people to see works in 360 degrees eg. google map street view.