auteurism in 360degrees

with michelle cortese

Georges MélièsA Trip to The Moon

1902

Rudolf Arnheim Film as Art, 1933

Film cannot be art, for it does nothing

but reproduce reality mechanically.

Fritz Lang Metropolis, 1927

Felix Lajeunesse & Paul Raphaël

Miyubi, 2017

overviewfilms in which

views of all 360 directions are recorded

simultaneously

Recorded 360 films do not allow viewers to freely explore a 3D space.

Roomscale VR allows you to explore a 3D space.

Oculus roomscale setup

watching

360 films may be consumed on a variety of surfaces

Stereoscopic films project two offset recordings.

Monoscopic films project a single, duplicated video.

watching

making

360 is captured via multi-lens camera rig

Or via placing a digital spherical

capture object in a 3D rendering

Kip Andersen & Keegan KuhnParallaxed, 2015

Scot Stafford & Kevin DartSonaria, 2017

Giroptic $300 Insta360 Pro $4,000 Nokia Ozo $60,000

Zoom H2N $200 Sennheiser AMBEO VR $2,000

Mantra VR &360VR ToolboxAdobe plugins$200-300

publishing

Interactive Roomscale Narrative VRoptimized for quality

Linear 360 Video, Mono or Stereo optimized for reach

bespoke one-on-one experience at an installation/event consume via pc-teathered headset

upload to game app store (oculus experiences store, steam store, etc.) consume via pc-teathered headset consume via standalone headset

upload to a distribution platform like facebook or youtube consume via pc-teathered headset consume via standalone headset consume via web/mobile

live-action videomono or stereomass distributionvia 360 camera

let’s focus on

Rudolf Arnheim Film as Art, 1933

Film is more than a variation on the immobile image,

obtained by multiplication; it is

new & different.

Bela BalazsTheory Of The Film, 1948 The basis and

possibility of an art of the film is that everyone and everything looks what it is.

Universal Orlando Rip Ride Rockit

2017

360’s unique charm is that no matter the surface

it can take you places.

Striving to design better, filmmaker- centric 360 creation tools.

direction

motion and human indicators have always been used to guide a viewer’s

focus around a space

character gaze

character guidance

Buster KeatonSherlock Jr, 1924

1 2

GoPro VRSand Dune Jumping, 2016

camera By reproducing space from an

unusual and striking angle, the artist

forces the spectator to take a keener

interest.

Rudolf Arnheim Film as Art, 1933

oblique camera technique

unreal presence Kip Andersen & Keegan Kuhn

Parallaxed, 2015

Alfred HitchcockThe Birds, 1963

Alfred HitchcockThe Birds, 1963

transition

cuts & lapdissolves

portals & teleportation

VR Transitions by Mettle, 2017

George StevensA Place in the Sun, 1951

montage

brought nonlinear imagery to film offering an artistic method counter to the

supposed objectivity of film

montage asnarrative

montage as surreal mobilityFelix Lajeunesse & Paul Raphaël Miyubi, 2017

Sergei Eisenstein & Grigori AleksandrovOctober, 1928

field of view

A change in FOV, was often used

to denote a change in

relationship with subject

matter.

the close-upCarl Theodor Dreyer The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928

the intimate context change

General Electric You Can’t Fight Fire with Fire, 2017

sound

A synch point is a salient moment of an audio-visual sequence during which a sound event and a visual event meet in synchrony, resulting independently of any rational logic.

Michel Chion Audio-Vision, 1994

spatialsynchresis

General Electric You Can’t Fight Fire with Fire, 2017

TL;DR

Don’t be the naysayers from the dawn of cinema.

bebold.

thank you