This week my team and I finally got to go to the top of the Crouse Bell tower to get our interior shots. As the Executive Producer of this project, I was able to get in contact with a Chimemaster and schedule time to have her play for us. It was an amazing experience going up to the bells. I was on set for both of our shoots (exterior last week and interior in the tower this past weekend). My job on set was dealing with the cameras, syncing them,...

Gone are the days when people would like to spend a whole night to watch TV. How fast all those technologies have been changing the world! Virtual reality is just about to take us all to a brand new world. The most compelling part of virtual reality is to transport one’s perspective to another. So how about look at the place we live in again in a bird’s eye? Syracuse is a cozy city, which we are already familiar with. However, have you ever imagined how the city would look...

Quite the experience and I can see the many applications VR has. I think that making there is an interesting offset of the somewhat stationary limitations of VR. On one hand it confines you but the positive side of that is it lets you get fully immersed into the experience. One thing I think will be interesting to tackle is how we cue to follow the storyline through framing without letting their mind run wild in the program and missing content/experience. In 2D the director of movies have constraints but...

I was very new to VR and 360 video prior to our class so I had a lot to learn and catch up on during the course of this semester. I spent a good amount of my time on Lynda.com learning various tutorials on the functionality of the GoPros. As a graduate student in the Multimedia, Photography, & Design program I needed to familiarize myself with the GoPros. I do not own a GoPro so I had to learn how to navigate and operate them for our assignments and simply...

My final project is filming a 360 video, so I came across some problem in the stitching process. When I stitched the video, I found out that one frame was in the wrong place and under the other frames. But when I dragged it in the correct area, it did not matched with other frames. So I opened the auto pano giga and tried to edit it. Unfortunately, it did not work even if I clicked the ghosting area with some green dots. Then, I googled it and watched some...

What I loved so much about this class was how much learning you could do in your own time. Whether it be learning unity on your laptop or trying out VR apps in the innovation lab, it was totally when you wanted it. I am a firm believer that you work best when YOU WANT to work and not when you're forced to. The independent learning promoted this self driven attitude. One book that contributed highly to my learning was Ready Player One. I read the book along with the class and...