Alex Media House

The process of shooting this video was quite fun because we had to think about ways to make a music video engaging in 360. Our group came up with n idea to make the video look like a stop motion video using a lot of cuts to deliver this effect. When I tried to edit the video though, fo some reason it wouldn’t appear 360 and the video wouldn’t stitch together, so I tried putting it in premiere and export it as aVR Video while doing a rough cut of the edit, but this was not enough to solve the issue, even though the video may appear 360, it is actually just a distorted frame made to look like a 360 video.

Pitching an idea for an XR work was a stimulating but also quite challenging experience since I never had the opportunity to plan a project in this field. Our group came up with various group ideas, for example, we had in mind to plan an exhibition on Star Wars were visitors would have the opportunity to interact in digital landscapes with various scenes of the films. However, the group settled on pitching a VR game where the player would assume the role of a Lighthouse, leading the boats in the sea to safety, dodging obstacles such as rocks and natural disasters. The project was quite interesting and if had the chance to be developed, the game could potentially be very fun.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jtEetCWbkhZJi33ARSvf7BeSU8xY7gILlQZqJxO3OXk/edit?usp=sharing

This was the very first super unpolished cut of the idea we are thinking to realize for our groups’ final assignment. The idea was to make a short about an old man suffering from PTSD in 360 where the man would experience hallucinations which make him believed he is still at war and that soldiers are attacking him in his own house. Thanks to this exercise we realized the challenges and problems we may face when we will make our final version of the short film and gave us the opportunity to explore some ideas we had and how they might work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo9LBV3dZw8&feature=youtu.be

Coming up with an idea for a documentary and making one in the short time given us was quite challenging, we wanted to make something “epic” as suggested by one of our teammates but in the end, we decided to do something we could potentially have fun recording. So, we opted fora making reviews on everyday objects and food found around RMIT. We reviewed around 5 different things spanning from food to revolving doors but of course, not all of them made the cut in the edited video. Overall this was a useful exercise to understand how to properly operate this kind of camera and to get used to edit a video in 360.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxVftfo6qjw&feature=youtu.be