By Ying Chen

We all love pets, especially dogs. Imagining that you walk to street, and suddenly see a fluffy puppy running and jumping in front of you. What do you want to do? You want to pet them and play with them. Pets are talented to please us. That's why those pets videos got tons of views everyday on YouTube. Now we can make the audience feel even more real to shoot 360 pets videos.

My plan is to shoot my 7-month-old yorkie. There are two ideas here. One is fiction. He will become a college student and experience the growth and change along with the four years on campus. At the beginning, he is a freshman and always behave excited, running everywhere, greeting to different people and exploring the campus life. Soon he becomes a sophomore and much calmer than before. He goes to classes regularly and won't show up in places where he doesn't have work to do. Junior year passes at the scene he walks by the university hill, using Hall of Languages as a background. Finally it's last year of college. He is tired of walking and just sitting there, observing new people walking and laughing, passing by him. All he wants is to get everything done and get out of here. He also looks upset due to the leaving.

The other idea is non-fiction. I guess we're all interested in how our pets behave when there's no one at home. So we can leave the 360 camera in my apt and leave for a while. Then we'll get a good footage showing the audience "this is what your dog is doing behind your back". To make a comparison, we can continue recording after we return home.

The first scene has more challenges because it's all movement. The character is quite out of control. And setting up the camera can be problem. Where the photographer should be is an issue here. For most part, it will be shoot outside under the daylight. So lighting will not be a problem. In the second scene, the character is in a familiar environment, so he will behave very naturally. But what we'll get from the camera is unpredictable. Also, since there are two rooms, what if he only stays at one room? So it might be better to set up two cameras in order to get him. Some places like under-sofa and under-bed can be a challenge as well. Expose the camera to the puppy, especially when there's no one around, can be a problem. We don't know what the puppy will do to the camera. But there can be surprise, too. In both scenes, the shooting perspective will be very low. It can be at the same level to the puppy, or it could even be on the ground. I believe the low shooting angle is a key to bring the audience to the scene.