Title
Cinematic Narration In Vr - Rethinking Film Conventions For 360 Degrees
Abstract
The rapid development of VR technology in the past three years allowed artists, filmmakers and other media producers to create great experiences in this new medium. But filmmakers are, however, facing big challenges, when it comes to cinematic narration in VR. The old, established rules of filmmaking do not apply for VR films and important techniques of cinematography and editing must be completely rethought. Possibly, a new filmic language will be found. But even though filmmakers eagerly experiment with the new medium already, there exist relatively few scientific studies about the differences between classical filmmaking and filmmaking in 360 and VR.We therefore present this study on cinematic narration in VR. In this we give a comprehensive overview of techniques and concepts that are applied in current VR films and games. We place previous research on narration, film, games and human perception into the context of VR experiences and we deduce consequences for cinematic narration in VR. We base our assumptions on a conducted empirical test with 50 participants and on an additional online survey.In the empirical study, we selected 360-degree videos and showed them to a test-group, while the viewer's behavior and attention was observed and documented.As a result of this paper, we present guidelines which suggest methods of guiding the viewers' attention as well as approaches to cinematography, staging and editing in VR.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-319-91584-5_15
VIRTUAL, AUGMENTED AND MIXED REALITY: APPLICATIONS IN HEALTH, CULTURAL HERITAGE, AND INDUSTRY, PT II: 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VAMR 2018, PT II
Keywords
Field
DocType
VR film, 360-degree video, VR storytelling, Cinematic narration
Visual arts,Narrative,Art,Cinematography,Filmmaking
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10910
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Gödde120.39
Frank Gabler240.76
Dirk Siegmund323.43
Andreas Braun420029.59