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Achieving Presence

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VR and 360 Video Production

4.7 (226 ratings) | 8.3K Students Enrolled

Welcome to the Google AR & VR Virtual Reality and 360 video production course! Our mission is to give you the skills you need to get started with your first VR project. This course will introduce you to Virtual Reality and 360 video production, guiding you through a step-by-step process to create VR content. To begin, we recommend taking a few minutes to explore the course site and review the material. Best of luck as you get started - we hope you enjoy the course, and can't wait to see what you'll create!

Skills You'll Learn

Virtual Reality, Camera+, Video Production, 360-degree video

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SM

May 24, 2018

This course was very informative! I would highly recommend this course to someone who is interested in making their own 360 videos.

JS

Dec 13, 2018

This is an excellent beginning to learning about immersive film production, and am excited to put what I've learned into practice!

From the lesson

Perfecting the VR Preproduction Pipeline

In this module, you'll learn the creative and technical nuances of 360 video production and how they impact preproduction. These lessons will provide the tools and processes necessary to write, plan, staff, and cast your VR production.

Questions to Ask Yourself1:27

Achieving Presence1:30

Space and Setting1:36

Plot, Character, and Dialogue2:16

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Google AR & VR

Transcript

Remember our conversation about presence earlier? It's the heart of what makes an immersive experience unique. Remember, presence is that feeling of being there in a given experience. That sensation leads to the need to be active and play a role in the story. In other words, your audience will feel an increase sense of responsibility in a VR experience. The last question is, why am I here and what should I do? It's your job as an immersive creator to take advantage of this unique aspect of VR. On the simplest level, this means giving viewers an experience. What do you want your viewers to see, or feel, or learn in your piece? You don't necessarily have to embody a viewer to do this, but it helps to shoot from a perspective that could be a human perspective. Even if that's technically in third person. >> Assuming you're not paralyzed in very single video, let's see if we can find a sweet spot for how you can be embodied. Take a look down. Having a physical body might just call attention to your awkwardness.. So let's get rid of that. Now you are hovering strangely over a chair. So let's get rid of that too and replace it with a shadow. Now there is nothing down there to distract you from where the scene is up here. And maybe this is the sweet spot, as long as I don't do something like offer you a drink. Because of course, you can't drink it. >> Understanding how to use POV in different ways will help you create experiences that best immerse the viewer and drive presence.

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