Adapting, modifying and applying cinematography and editing concepts and techniques to cinematic virtual reality film production

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2110184
Author(s):  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Ian Weber
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Simulation Tool ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Critical Areas ◽  
Film Directors ◽  
Cinematic Experience

Virtual reality (VR) filmmaking presents a unique cinematic experience requiring new and innovative ways to conceptualise and practice specific aspects of the production process. This article integrates a range of adapted and modified filmmaking thinking, approaches and components into the cinematic virtual reality (CVR) language and grammar in the two critical areas of cinematography and editing. This focus provides a range of possible strategies and tools for would-be VR film directors to engage more efficiently and effectively in VR film production. The article utilises an extended case study of the VR feature film Calling to present the director/editor’s observations and experiences using transmedia journaling and three-dimensional (3D) CVR previsualisation as a simulation tool to create this dynamic, interactive CVR film.

Rob Roy: Britain’s First Feature Film

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Merz
Keyword(s):  
Language Production ◽  
English Language ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Production History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Film Making

What was the potential for the development of a Scottish film industry? Current histories largely ignore the contribution of Scotland to British film production, focusing on a few amateur attempts at narrative film-making. In this chapter, Caroline Merz offers a richer and more complex view of Scotland’s incursion into film production,. Using a case-study approach, it details a production history of Rob Roy, produced by a Scottish company, United Films, in 1911, indicating the experience on which it drew, placing it in the context of other successful British feature films such as Beerbohm’s Henry VIII, and noting both its success in Australia and New Zealand and its relative failure on the home market faced with competition from other English-language production companies.

Will the Real Devil Speak Up?

Resonance ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-278
Author(s):  
Müge Turan
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Exceptional Case ◽  
The Body ◽  
Two Dimensional Image ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Sound Film ◽  
Cinematic Experience ◽  
Speak Up ◽  
The Voice

Ventriloquism, Edison’s playback, and the sound film base their appeal to spectators primarily on the tension between the two-dimensional image and three-dimensional sound, between space and surface, as well as between body and voice. My focus is on the disembodied voice in cinema, the voice with no body attached. The meanings attached to the unaccommodated or unlocatable voices in various kinds of ventriloquism seem to produce just such a suspension. The opening of the connection between a voice and a body as its source reminds us of the voice as a partial object in the writings of Jacques Lacan, as well as Rick Altman’s model of ventriloquism, in which whoever controls sound in film is a ventriloquist who “uses” the body, manipulating it as if it were a puppet. This notion becomes fascinatingly complicated when applied to The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin). The Exorcist stages the battle between the forces of sound and image, body and voice, elevating it to a terrifying good-versus-evil theological level. This battle extends the diegetic narrative to become a battle between two actors (the voice actor and the actor seen on screen) trying to share one body, a split between two personalities. The film is an exceptional case study that allows us to examine the ways in which cinema contributes to and mediates the ventriloquial act, as well as the roles of the visual, aural, and tactile perceptual channels and their relation to each other in the cinematic experience, in particular in the horror genre.

scholarly journals Studying Human Behaviour with Virtual Reality: The Unity Experiment Framework

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Brookes ◽  
Matthew Warburton ◽  
Mshari Alghadier ◽  
Mark Mon-Williams ◽  
Faisal Mushtaq
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Postural Sway ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Stimulus Presentation ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Behavioural Research ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Full Power ◽  
Interceptive Timing

AbstractVirtual Reality systems offer a powerful tool for human behaviour research. The ability to create three-dimensional visual scenes and measure responses to the visual stimuli enables the behavioural researcher to test hypotheses in a manner and scale that were previously unfeasible. For example, a researcher wanting to understand interceptive timing behaviour might wish to violate Newtonian mechanics, so objects move in novel 3D trajectories. The same researcher may wish to collect such data with hundreds of participants outside the laboratory, and the use of a VR headset makes this a realistic proposition. The difficulty facing the researcher is that sophisticated 3D graphics engines (e.g. Unity) have been created for game designers rather than behavioural scientists. In order to overcome this barrier, we have created a set of tools and programming syntaxes that allow logical encoding of the common experimental features required by the behavioural scientist. The Unity Experiment Framework (UXF) allows the researcher to readily implement several forms of data collection, and provides researchers with the ability to easily modify independent variables. UXF does not offer any stimulus presentation features, so the full power of the Unity game engine can be exploited. We use a case study experiment, measuring postural sway in response to an oscillating virtual room, to show how UXF can replicate and advance upon behavioural research paradigms. We show that UXF can simplify and speed up development of VR experiments created in commercial gaming software and facilitate the efficient acquisition of large quantities of behavioural research data.

scholarly journals Designing Virtual Reality Environments through an Authoring System Based on CAD Floor Plans: A Methodology and Case Study Applied to Electric Power Substations for Supervision

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 7435
Author(s):  
Camilo de Lellis Barreto Junior ◽  
Alexandre Cardoso ◽  
Edgard Afonso Lamounier Júnior ◽  
Paulo Camargos Silva ◽  
Alexandre Carvalho Silva
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Authoring System ◽  
Power Substation ◽  
Floor Plans ◽  
Easy Integration ◽  
Power Substations

The adoption of Virtual Reality (RV) technologies in prototype design and process revision has contributed to multiple industry areas. Nonetheless, the development of VR systems for engineering is a complex task, as it involves specialized teams handling low-level code development. Given these problems, the goal of this study is presenting a methodology for designing VR, through an Authoring System based on Computer-Aided Design (CAD). The presented methodology provides an easy integration of electric power substation floor plans and Virtual Reality software (VRS), as well as three-dimensional and symbol modeling conventions. Centralized software architecture was developed, composed of the CAD Editor, input manager and VRS. The methodology was evaluated through a case study applied to the conception (elaboration) of electric power substations (EPS) as part of a Research and Development (R&D) project for training and field assets supervision. The results demonstrated visual precision and high integrity in elaboration of a VR environment from the CAD floor plan. This work also presents a comparative analysis between manual conception and the Authoring System.

scholarly journals HOW WERE THE TAPESTRIES IN THE SALA DI SATURNO OF PITTI PALACE ARRANGED? GEOMATICS AND VIRTUAL REALITY FOR ART CURATORS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Conti ◽  
Grazia Tucci ◽  
Valentina Bonora ◽  
Lidia Fiorini
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Art History ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
3D Model ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Temporary Exhibitions

Three-dimensional acquisition techniques, reality-based modelling and virtual reality are tools used in Digital Humanities prevalently for displaying the results of a study, but they can also suggest new methods of investigation to humanities scholars. In a case study regarding art history, these techniques made it possible to recreate the layout of the Sala di Saturno in Pitti Palace (Florence) in the 17th century, based on information obtained from archive documents on the tapestries designed for that hall and a 3D model expressly elaborated with geomatic techniques. The results were summarised in a video showed in 2019 during the exhibition on tapestries dedicated to Cosimo I de' Medici. A tool was also developed to assist exhibition and museum curators in their work. Through virtual reality, they can design temporary exhibitions or modify the display of the works of art in a museum in a realistic way, using visually and metrically accurate models of the pieces and exhibition rooms.

scholarly journals 3D RECONSTRUCTION AND PRESENTATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE: AR AND VR EXPERIENCES AT THE MUSEO D’ARTE ORIENTALE DI TORINO

2021 ◽  
Vol XLVI-M-1-2021 ◽  
pp. 697-704
Author(s):  
R. Spallone ◽  
F. Lamberti ◽  
M. Guglielminotti Trivel ◽  
F. Ronco ◽  
S. Tamantini
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Structure From Motion ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
3D Modelling ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Virtual Reconstruction ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Set Up

Abstract. For years, virtual reconstruction in the figurative arts, and sculpture, in particular, has been developing and consolidating. The workflow from the acquisition to three-dimensional modelling and to the integration of missing parts, has been optimized through processes entirely implemented in the digital dimension. The most recent developments in augmented reality and virtual reality technologies, together with the possibility of using low-cost and widely available devices, have made it possible to establish new links between the real and the virtual. The experiences presented in this paper comes up within the agreement between the Politecnico di Torino and the Museo d’Arte Orientale (MAO). The workflow set up for this research involves: structure from motion (SfM) survey, 3D modelling, and 3D philological reconstruction, then develops a proposal to implement augmented and virtual reality experiences aimed at the communication and fruition of the exhibits. The case study concerns two Japanese statues, and proposes their visualisation with the respective weapons virtually reconstructed, and through VR, involving the reconstruction of the interior space of a temple recognised as philologically compatible with the location of the statues within a statuary complex.

Construction of plastic contact deformation maps on ceramics: a case study on aluminum nitride

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 636-637
Author(s):  
D. L. Callahan
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Aluminum Nitride ◽  
Mechanical Response ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Bright Field Image ◽  
Perfectly Plastic ◽  
Contrast Analysis ◽  
Deformation Patterns

Modern polishing, precision machining and microindentation techniques allow the processing and mechanical characterization of ceramics at nanometric scales and within entirely plastic deformation regimes. The mechanical response of most ceramics to such highly constrained contact is not predictable from macroscopic properties and the microstructural deformation patterns have proven difficult to characterize by the application of any individual technique. In this study, TEM techniques of contrast analysis and CBED are combined with stereographic analysis to construct a three-dimensional microstructure deformation map of the surface of a perfectly plastic microindentation on macroscopically brittle aluminum nitride.The bright field image in Figure 1 shows a lg Vickers microindentation contained within a single AlN grain far from any boundaries. High densities of dislocations are evident, particularly near facet edges but are not individually resolvable. The prominent bend contours also indicate the severity of plastic deformation. Figure 2 is a selected area diffraction pattern covering the entire indentation area.

Virtual Reality Treatment for Agoraphobia: A Mexican Case Study

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgina Cardenas-Lopez ◽  
Sandra Munoz ◽  
Maribel Gonzalez ◽  
Carmen Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality
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