Weekly experiment

This is an audio visual experiment that I did over the week.

I’ve been really fascinated with environmental storytelling and how, by setting up a believable environment, we can convey a story without telling a single word. As a storyteller and filmmaker, I was taught to show and not tell. And I think environmental storytelling really manifests the essence of that.

So in this scene, I created a simple zooming out camera movement and took my filmmaking techniques to test them out in Unity. There’s so much more to explore.

 

Cornell box

Build a “Cornell Box” to represent your personal or emotional connection to the topic.

 

People work in film as well as Immersive Media Technologies

Cao Fei:

Cao Fei (b. 1978, Guangzhou) is an internationally-renowned Chinese contemporary artist. Currently living in Beijing, she mixes social commentary, popular aesthetics, references to Surrealism, and documentary conventions in her films and installations. Her works reflect on the rapid and developmental changes that are occurring in Chinese society today.

Bill Viola:

Bill Viola is a contemporary video artist whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in new media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness.

MIT’s Docubase

Cassandra Herrman is an award winning producer and director who has worked with PBS, Al Jazeera, the New York Times, MSNBC and National Geographic. Her films have screened­ at numerous film festivals, including SXSW and Sundance. Her work includes stories on a range of subjects from domestic homicide and gun legislation to the intersection of music and politics. She has produced and reported in China, India, the Middle East, Latin and South America, and 17 countries in Africa. Cassandra’s films have been nominated for three national Emmy awards. She has recently been producing and directing immersive journalism virtual reality experiences. AFTER SOLITARY, a VR experience that premiered at the SXSW film festival, won the Jury Award for Room Scale VR, as well as the award for Excellence in Immersive Storytelling at the 2017 Online Journalism Awards (ONA). Her independent feature doc, WHEN I SAY AFRICA, about the Western fascination with “saving” Africa, is in post production. She has taught graduate level courses in production as well as a year-long master’s thesis seminar in visual storytelling at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she received her master’s degree.