Start: How I found my topic. It was a long way until I got the topic of my final project. Ambitious as I am, I started to work on the topic in the middle of the semester. I really wanted to show the user the incredible facility of the Landmark Theater in Syracuse. Unfortunately, the Landmark Theater couldn’t see the emerging technology of a virtual reality video and didn’t give me permission to shoot as well as to talk to me. “This is nothing for us”’ they said. Okay, I...
Independent Learning Outcome – Articek
by Claudia Articek
- December 12
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For my independent learning outcome, which is required in the course “VR Storytelling”, I decided to take option 2: “Lynda.com course”. As a matter of fact, I need Adobe Premiere Pro for my final project because it is a required skill for editing 360 videos and I am not advanced experienced in this software, I took the Lynda.com Premiere Pro CC Essential Training (2015) course. This course is for beginner in video editing and includes: Editing in Premiere Pro: the fast-track approach Setting up a project and a sequence Importing...
Pitch Final Project – Claudia Articek
- November 16
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My final project is about the idea of improving the image of Syracuse's orchestra called Symphoria. I would like to attract young adults to see the work behind a performance and to experience the stunning atmosphere during an event. There are several reasons, why young people don't want to go to an orchestra: they think it is boring, they don't have money or they just have no time to go there. With this virtual reality experience, the orchestra will come home to the target audience. It will make it easy...
In the beginning of this year’s October, Newhouse hosted an event called: Running for Cover: Politics, Justice and Media in the Syrian Conflict. The focus laid at the accountability in the Syrian Conflict and the international communities’ response to its effects and challenges. Beside the podiums discussion and the presentations there was an area to experience VR at first hand. I was helping for several hours before and during the lunch break. Many interested people came to this booth and were intrigued to try out the virtual reality glasses from...
Claudia Articek: Malcon and the Catwalk
- November 7
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This assignment was for me the most difficult I ever had. Even though, we had very detailed tip sheets and went through the process in class, I still couldn't get the positions working. I tried to add the iTween events to the dedicated positions and in the whole FSM for Malcom. Both didn't work. After a couple of hours I gave up and leave Malcom do its catwalk to just one position. Furthermore, I had a problem with downloading my model from Sketchfab. After downloading it from Sketchfab, I tried...
Playmaker – Claudia Articek
- October 24
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Using the playmaker instead of programming is a great idea. Nevertheless, it was a little bit difficult for me to install it and get it ready to work. Once the playmaker was set up, I found it easy to handle it. In addition to that, the instruction sheets and videos as well as the fact we practiced the playmaker in class three times helped me a lot. I didn't feel helpless and I was able to ask every time. Unfortunately, the playmaker didn't work with windows so I had to...
VR Research – New York Times VR – Claudia Articek
- October 23
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The New York Times goes VR. In this presentation I will give an overview about the NYT VR app, its advantages and disadvantages as well as their competitors and how they try to make money. Link to presentation New York Times VR - Claudia Articek from Claudia Articek
Unity Medieval Scene – Claudia Articek
- October 9
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Welcome to the year 750, where dragons were reality and electricity not invented. In the scene there is a dragon which comes over the medieval village to try to burn it down. My user comes from a long journey back home and suddenly sees the dragon. He runs to the village with the purpose to evacuate the inhabitants. When he arrives, he notices that everybody left the city. That’s the end of the story. When I created to scene the first time, I mixed assets created for unity 3.0 with...
Simulation of Drunkenness: Lessons learned
- October 5
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The purpose of this 360 video was to simulate the drunkenness of a person on a party. We were five group members which had different strength. Because of the diverse team, we could split the tasks and learn from each other. I was responsible to set up a story board which showed the different content as well as the duration of the scenes. After setting it up, we met to shoot the video on Friday. Everybody were there and we shot the video together. The day after, we met in...
Assignment 1: VR Experience – Claudia Articek
- September 21
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Before I came to Syracuse I wanted to be enrolled in the VR Storytelling course because I have worked in the past with the technology and with the way stories should be told. I never did a combination of both. Unfortunately, every seat in this course was taken at the time I send my class choices to Newhouse. A week after classes began, my schedule advisor called me to say that there was some movement in the class and she could enrol me to the class. I was more than...