How McClatchy built its AR app, Actual Reality!
Ben Connors from McClatchy’s New Ventures Lab shares how (and why) they’ve built its first augmented reality app, Actual Reality! This article originally appeared on McClatchy NVL’s Medium account and…
Articles tagged: behind the scenes
Q&A: Behind the scenes on Ashe ’68 VR with Eve M. Cohen
Ashe ‘68 is a multi-component documentary project celebrating the life and legacy of tennis champion and civil rights activist Arthur Ashe. The project shares his story through film, a photo…
Q&A with TARGO’s Victor Agulhon and Chloe Rochereuil
The easiest way to sum up TARGO’s virtual reality content is this: watch unique people, in strange places, doing interesting things. It’s an approach that has worked well for the…
Q&A: Journalist Nyasha Kadandara
Kenya-based journalist Nyasha Kadandara is working in a VR film about the environmental and humanitarian crisis surrounding Lake Chad, a project in partnership with Electric South and BlackRhino VR. Kadandara…
Directing my first VR180 production
We’ve recently launched a new show called “Now Your Turn” on Geek & Sundry that was filmed using Google’s new VR180 format. When VR180 was announced, it was met with a fair amount…
Behind the scenes of Gannett’s first AR app launch with Ray Soto
On March 29, USA Today and Florida Today released a new augmented reality app to experience SpaceX’s April 2 rocket launch live in AR. The app, called 321 LAUNCH, works…
Storyboarding Strategies for VR
This article is part of an extensive series of articles to walk creators through the process of making a 360-degree video, from start to finish. One of the things I love most…
The tools you need to map out your VR project
Ready to take a stab at telling stories in VR? Previsualization will be an essential tool in your VR filmmaking preproduction planning. “Previs” = Prep There is one major VR…
My transition from broadcast to 360: here’s what I learned on my first shoot
What skills and techniques transition from broadcast to 360 video? Here’s what Harriet Hadfield learned on her first 360 video shoot in Northern Canada, after 10+ years in broadcast. The…
Q&A: Brittany Peterson shares McClatchy’s 360 video production workflow for breaking news
Very few newsrooms think of 360 as a medium that lends itself to quick-turn stories. There are syncing and stitching issues, massive files to transfer and render, and special plugins…
My spatial audio workflow for a 360 ‘behind the scenes’ video
This post originally appeared on John Hendicott’s blog on Medium and is being shared here with his permission so we can all learn from his spatial audio workflow. We highly…
Q&A: RT’s Edward Chizhikov talks 360 cameras in space, editing across platforms + more
Edward Chizhikov is the head of the RT360 department at Russia Today. Although he joined RT in 2008, he’s spent the last one and half year leading the news organization’s…