360dome

360 Visualised music in Fulldome

360 Music video? > working with chapters and with nature scenes

>> could I use someone's music who I know ?

360 Fashion film by Gucci

Close-ups of nature

Fashionable performance in a single 360° room

ANNE IMHOF

Poetry or music video > visualised music with poetic/spoken word part?

A single room treated like a world becomes like a theater stage * Gott des Gemetzels

FILMING PERFORMANCE

Sound can alter the setting and imply a 'somewhere else' like being outside that doesn't fully fit with the visual - e.g. like outside scenes are simulated in theater performance

*exhibition in Berlin with outdoor sound

How does 'dramaturgie' work? How does it become more than just 'sitting inside a scene'
how do you take people on a journey and tell a story in a captivating way?

Also the materialities (here: hay) remind me of Marina Ambramovic and the general importance of the materials you choose to set up the feeling of a performance

I like the idea of having a drone in the scene and maybe using
that drone to film in another outside place: the Drone becomes the only 'character' that ever leaves the room - THE DIGITAL EYE

How do you make a performance in a room relevant and interesting?

> styling
> performers
> space / set design
> action (with props)

Being inside a fridge - intro: then someone opens the fridge door

A main character?/muse?

EDIT: > one singular , authentic, strong character

I see a future in this for fashion brands - & I could see pitching something like this to NINAMOUNAH

Drone footage

Theater - poetry - story

I like the idea of working with simple objects in close-up; so giving them some kind of meaning as they appear in the total performance but also maybe have their own excurse-chapter...

In a miniature world the camera can also be set inside and things appear huge..

RAPHAELA VOGEL

> 360° camera vor a full room performance - 180° camera for better image quality and any other staged or set-up content.

unpredictability: through animals

bunnies?
turtles?

A movement theme - choreography

What can be done with Aftereffects? Amorphous bodies?
A blurring body in which you can still see the trails of the movement?

What does solitude and isolation do with people?

Why is it used as a form of punishment?(jail) ( children to stand in a corner) ( It is punishing because we are social creatures.)
A form of 'therapy'? ( isolation therapy)
A form of manipulation in interrogations?

What is it doing with us now?

Gott des Gemetzels

Casting - Dream Cast

Yasmin

Fiona

Effects

Setting

Cast

Narrative

Art Direction - Set design main inspiration

Action

360 Performance

Can imagine parts of the story being told in the dark just through sound or with a single object

Isolation

Rambling/ Talking to self
e.g. a poem: repeated again and again
> poetry should start later as this is the climaxing of the situation - I don't want to start by explaining but first disorient and have the people really be in the sound

Inspiration: Action or 'non-action'

> Present Concept on 3rd of December: Pitch idea
> visit Jena Planetarium: 14th December > have something to test > need 360 camera : Jörg, Mohammad

Muss wissen wann die deadline ist allgemein?

Good Quality 360 Camera captures I've seen:
'Traveling While Black'
'Sanctuaries of Silence'
('The Real Thing')

> What camera do they use?!

VISUAL MUSIC

Showing just a singular space introduces the idea of ' Humans in captivity' > which leads to the narrative theme of isolation and quarantine during the current pandemic

Insta 360 camera - 4k quality

How to manage visual footage
cameras, transitions/edit

VR - AR together

Vision and music connected - fusion of senses

systematic approach of connecting, light, colour, music
> synesthisia

sound and colour frequencies

frequensies that can be measured - Kandinsky
something that can be measured - sound frequency - to colour ?

what kind of correlation do you want to construct between the senses > synthestetic experience

disney - fantasia oskar fischinger - optical poetry

visuals bring to audio sphere
or audio brings to your visual sphere
Colours or materials as methaphoric symbols correlating to sound:
like fire
like woods
a blue flower

effect of having something move from behind the camera view to at its centre - or other way around - so moving the audience 'through' something

physically founded correlations between sound and shape > laws of nature seen in water molecules

associations in the minds eye - intuitive- artistic

1 minute exercise - listen to something - pay attention to what comes up > scribbles - your synesthetic experience from music - close eyes - and what do you see

what is the authority and flavour of your own vision > free decision > express it somehow > make it visual

sound memories
people who are colour blind also see something

visualising sound - Enter the void

any kind of self expression to the theme of visual music

Inspiration: Symbolism in Props

portraits exploring feelings, emotions, mental health and resulting exhibited behaviours (movement/action choreography) provoked through the gloom and tribulation of isolation and sameness ..

social distancing and forbidden touch.

Portraits of my generation (with actual people taken from the scene):

Cellphones
Selfies (phones with selfie lights)
boredom
dancing
starring at the ceiling
Drone ( to go outside and buy groceries) *imagine: 360 drone in grocery store shopping !!!!!
Which then fits really nicely with the fridge intro !!
+ also the sound of the drone , the sound of the fridge
talking to oneself

I am excited by the idea of being confined to one space - trapped in a way

How Social isolation effects the brain

Weekly task/Exercise:

Find one minute of your favourite music or sound piece.

Listen to it with eyes closed

observe, what kind of image, associations, sensations, feelings come up in response to the music

scribble, describe, picture in free form, what these images, sensations, feelings were that you experienced

naran ratan - fanfare for naran ratan

Kara lis Coverdale

Gunna haslam - Bramaputra

1k flowers

Meitei

Ana Roxanne

Hiroshi Yoshimura-Green

Lanark Artefax - voices near the hypocentre

oqbqbo - temple tree

Martin glass - welcome to the four seasons

In general I prefer music that has visual elements like
sound samples of a scenery, setting or 'background noises'
or spoken word samples.

Going back I used to love Extrawelt and Boris Brecha because their music made me see things, shapes and outdoor settings like animals but in abstract terms.

Now I mostly listen to ambient music which makes me think less concrete in shapes or colours ( like I might on a dance-floor) but rather in spaces and general feelings or sets or images.

I also now from experience that the minds eye and visuals that take shape there are directly and heavily influenced by what has been the most recent visual input, / what is freshest in the library so to say. e.g. when working heavily in computer programs those lines and controls become a heavy component of a mental visualisation.

Easy example for I saw a mountain landscape in the desert and the point control view of Blender. After looking at the cover again I had to laugh because this was basically the visual given to me by the album cover.

Similarly my visions for Martin Glass are also slightly inspired by the album cover.

The tracks title is equally telling.

Shows me that I am drawn to narrative, spaces, feelings and also a point of view. ( e.g. here an over the shoulder, first person character /camera.
I feel very comfortable in this scene but also entirely invisible.
The weather ist warm and mild. The feeling is calm but almost too calm, unrealistic - like a cliche, like a video game. Like a character in SIMS, my steps are not stepping but gliding. Into a resort area after hearing/seeing some tropical birds.
In the reception area, a giant floating heard welcomes me/us to the resort. The space in cooled by an air-conditioning, the floor is of smooth tiled rock. The doors to the left of the reception glide open effortlessly as if suspended in air. Entering outdoors there are multiple water fountains, the visuals look like a video game, the water is not real and doesn't make a sound.

The visual is a merger of the resort from a past vacation (the architecture and how the rooms connect always feel important to me in creating a sensation /atmosphere) and the graphic style of a SIMS meets 60s architecture visualisation renderings like animation.

I want to shoot a film in a space with a particular atmosphere (from a setting) not simply because this is what I want to do but BECAUSE it is my mode of expression, because it is what I see and how I think visually - I don't (usually) visualise in shapes and colours, I visualise in spaces and compositions ( at least right now.)

Martin glass - welcome to the four seasons

Sound options:

Inspiring video - especially in terms of the movement choreography

and the split screen - which introduced the idea to me that the back and the front of the cinema /dome could be used to show different things - although this means double the work and that people might miss half of it - but you could play it one way and then flip it and play it again - maybe in slightly altered sequence.

Concept - Narrative

Portraits of isolation
depression (caused also through social media)
digital quantification

bedazzle turtle out of boredom
turtles (slow, träge, seem bored somehow)
drone ( as digital eye and only member who ever leaves the space)
phones with selfie-lights
self driving mini vacuum

Option: Add in the effect that the audience can see persons phone screen
phone sounds

* story could also be about the initial #quarantine - self optimisation and optimism and the cynicism it morphs to

Do I need a choreographer? or can I choreograph it myself?
Planned actions require meetings and rehearsals which will be difficult to have during corona.

Shinboru (2009) - Japanese movie

Sound portrayal can also be 'slow' and be about listening to a soundscape

first hearing it in the dark and then having it appear for instance..

Working with 360 filming (Tiny World) showing it on screens - so not as 360format
> also interesting!

Performance in white cube - interested in the idea of being in a 'non-space'

The combination of performance and 360°immersive media seems very natural to me. During performances you feel part of the action somehow, maybe wanting to be at the centre of things and all actions need to work/are choreographed to be seen from multiple angles. With 360° film the entire room and possible simultaneous action can be captured - like in real performance setting the viewer themselves can choose where to look!

It is important not just to keep the viewers interest and excitement through an action narrative/concept - dramaturgie!

A lot of objects have come to be symbols of the Covid-lockdown: Toilet paper,
Flower,
Konservendosen

Emotional range: from bored to release

The effect of progressing digitalisation - changing or bodies, our minds, our apperations - as we can no longer go outside out and our physical selves are shrunk, in presence and mobility , our digital personas become more present?

The effect of walking around the camera/ around the entire room in Full-dome can be very exciting. > Playing with the whole space.

Effects

Notes from session:

Lisa

Tom

Insight through exercise:

I think visually in spaces and actions and atmospheres.
Sounds translate to objects or textures for me.
Spaces translate to feeling and atmosphere - the architecture of a place will create how I feel.
> these are the elements I will bring into my 360 visualisation!

We are stripped from our modes of balance: the only possible balance left is nature .

..What if all this digital living brings us back to realising the healing presence of nature and need for balance?
> NATURE BECOMES A SYMBOL

Since the performance needs the performers to live I would either need to bring them here and provide for them.
Or if in Berlin I can give them the info and they can come from home/ go home again. Especially in times of Corona people feel uncomfortable about 'unnecessary travel' and I couldn't pay anyone so I will just have to work like everyone right now - remote and digitally and try to organise everything form here for there.

Technologies

Cheap ones start at 18euro to about 30 - medium good ones start at 50euro

Drone - Magda; Leon

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24-28kg (x2) oder zsm?
für 35euro

17kg? - 20 euro

10kg? - 10 euro

People using phones to connect so no form of other physical coming together.

Source: https://www.istitutosvizzero.it/de/performance/dorota-gaweda-egle-kulbokaite/

Homework: draw a storyboard

If Hay in the end is too expensive and too complicated to transport - what else could I use? Dirt?
But dirt or 'Erde' has less visual excitement, is more dirty/ of a mess to work with - also for clothes and could make a type of continuity very messy and IS ALSO DIFFICULT TO TRANSPORT.

Because I cannot give direction in the space or see what is happening everything needs to be either (1) fully choreographed or (2) be an open portrait of the person improvising

> It does need to be choreographed to keep it interesting and sharp

Static objects/ A tableau of objects set-up on the floor:

hand sanitizer
bottled water

bakingflour
sitting on a podest of toiletpaper warpped in plastic for stabilistation
noodles with tomatosauce
towers of konservendosen
(question of how cliche it should become; also if I‘m doing the hay its already enough)

> Do Casting
> Get Choreographer
> Test and record movements myself
> Start to arrange their meetings to practice movements

> Start Production
> Location
> Possibly request Styling from Designers

> Film close-ups
> Get drone to film 360
> Film outdoor drone shots

> Do camera tests to understand how 360 films and sizes in Fulldome
> Organise a space?
> OMA?
> Eiermannbau basement?
> Test with Magda, Buba (gone soon?), Melina

> Apply for funding to then film early spring of next year?

-> Vorlesungen end in February -> Semester goes until end of March.
New Semester begins again 1st of April.

Possibly shooting main Performance in March/April?

This Semester:

Using dome to go into the mind

using real life architecture that mirrors the dome
placing sound
introspective device to explore the mind
dome as canvas - as a skull - go into head
provoke physical experience for audience

immersion doesn't come from realism but the person projecting themselves into the experience

exagerrate colour
try out many many compositions/ proportions

no floor

not cofnined by general ideas of a narrative in music videos

I want some tall people - model types
Do consider Lukas and Yudith because they enjoy and have experience with performing

Films that take place only in one closed space create a feeling or unease, dread or clausthophobia:
Gott des Gemetzels
Climax

Weiße Wände sind schlecht im dome: Aber was ist wenn der Raum so groß ist das die Wände soweit weg sind das man sie kaum im Bild hat..?
Und man vlt. ziemlich hazed?Dies müsste aber mit einer sehr sehr guten Bildqualität counteracted werden.

> test camera

> want the camera to be at average human height
close up - invading personal space - uncomfortable?

>what is the feeling I want to create?

> handheld? shaky-ness?

> the further from the camera the less stitching issues
> position important things so that they aren't on the edges

> movement
> audio cues
> place main action at front

> documentary style works best
> sitting with the people

> try to get funding?

A narrative audio is extremely important to guide the experience
and especially in my case to tell the story and give context to action that might make little sense otherwise

slow transitions between scenes that fade to black work when there is audio over them

transitions work nicest when they are a slow fade from one scene to the next - which could work well for me because it's all in one space

slow transitioning or movement in generell is important to ease the viewer

creating a point of focus is important to give the viewer a sense of control

to keep the point of focus in the same place - out in front

lighting is a very comforting way to direct the focus - e.g. the entire room is dark accept were you should look

if most of the space is dimly lit this directs focus to where it should be and also makes the viewer feel safe and comforted and not exposed and vulnerable at the centre of the scene

Also if the space is dimly lit the camera stand can be hidden in darkness underneath

all lighting must be in the space

the height positioning of the camera is very important!
To position it on the height of a 'normal person' can allow the viewer to feel part of the scene.

for normal VR you position it in the air on height of a persons view
for fulldome you don't have the bottom half
so you can position someone on top of a table for example
or tilt the floor? to have the floor stretch along the front side of the dome?

SOUND IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR IMMERSION!!!

The film should feel like something between a music video , a Anne Imhof performance and fashionable.
I want it to have a similar tonality to Kelsey Lu's shades of blue with the mix of inside to outside world.

Hätte noch viel höher testen sollen. > need a taller tripod to have it at persons heiht.

Tripod height: 2 pieces not stretched

Tripod height: 3 pieces not stretched

Height of the people is much too extreme > requires more space so that performers can be further from camera

Sitzen in 2-3 meter Distanz funktioniert
In der gleichen Distanz zustehen ist noch zu hoch.

* it might also be a good idea to have markings on the floor that shows the performers how far to stay away

Light from outdoors/windows burns out the image

Styling and hair and make-up is important to elevate an otherwise 'realistic image' > documentary style - 'realistic image' is creates ON EYE-LEVEL

Near - far

All action up in front or to one direction so viewer knows where to look!

if positioning camera next to someone to integrate viewer into scene needs to be carefully positioned to not create distortions

if actions on the floor its important to make sure that person doesn't fall out of frame

If positioning camera next to someone to integrate viewer into scene needs to be carefully positioned to not create distortions

3 people is max amount for one scene

Generally being too low is unrealistic

Interestingly enough this image has a lot of the elements that I want in the film and as such a similar feeling. But again showing how important image quality and LIGHT is to transporting the visual.

Collaboration with Gruppe Magazine?

Collaboration with Ximon Lee? The style is almost right but maybe partially to stiff and fancy for movement?

But by working with Ximon - Infinity dose zero and Roland become more realistic performers.

ONE PARAGRAPH THAT SUMS IT UP !

Keywords:

Portraits of youth
(real people from Berlin nightlife and creative scene)
portraits of emotions

in times of social distancing and isolation

performance
contemporary movement(dance)

digitalisation (vs. nature)

across-boundry production
360° film
VR adaptation
immersive media
fashion film
performance art
experimental documentary format

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Last session of the year:

> compare image quality Insta 360 One 1 action 6k VR ( good Stabilisation, light weight, possible to but on drone! ) with Insta 260 Pro

Need : Good light, bright location , good contrast and good colours
but NOT WHITE - because white as a colour will show the tiles of the dome. ( Tiles kill the immersion/illusion)
e.g. also twilight, dark light situations are not so good.

Can do a lot in Post-production!

Insta 360 pro 1 ; Insta 360 Pro 2 > can provide/ arrange from Hamburg

for showing an Environment 360 footage is best for fulldome

shouldn't be a problem to work over the semester deadline, will be a way to get credits.

CREATE FULL STORYBOARD!!!!

Holding it with lenses facing towards you on the stick only would work if you crop in the image to get rid of the corner holding the camera

Indeed creating a detailed storyboard is really important - because all film projects I've done with exact storyboards work out - while those improvised on site are always a little off!

Feels most focused on (established?) Directors visions - this wouldn't be the main category of my project.

Dark Web might be a bit to much on the fully digital - dystopian side.

More along the lines of Katherinas brutalist architecture and dance video

Stronger into a documentary style. 'Through these Eyes' could maybe somewhat fit here!

More abstract moving image works. It feels to me like the nature, close-up and drone shots definitly fit into this category - the performance could as well.

Sound dimension of the performance :

Through singing, murmuring, whispering and whistling; the artist’s improvised voice acting explores the full possibilities of vocalisation in the form of an abstract monologue, performed from within the audience and processed live.

... was conceived as a piece of operatic storytelling, presenting a psychologically-charged narrative through the transcendental potential of sound.

Sound dimension of the performance:

*here it might indeed be helpful to think about how I want the synopsis to be ( how do I want people to talk about it afterwards)

Bringing an element from the outside in:

the question is WHY???

Do I really need it or is it easier to show 'the void' - represent 'emptiness' in an otherwise empty space and keep the outside, outside?

Cox orange sound: a type of morphing of the wind going through a microphone - sounds similar to a drone sound

> maybe it will be possible to tweak the sound of the drone in flight

Hay ?

Soil?

Or - alternately - emphasise the indoor-ness
by creating architecture with indoor objects like bags of flour or sugar?

or mix the two? soil & sugar and mehl?

is the camera acknowledged or is it rather a silent observer? > a position more comfortable for the audience?

Fade to dark and sound can be very helpful for creating transitions

How to get this kind of positioning?!

360° Aufnahme and tilt it to this angle?

CREDITS - or even poetry on screen

I really like how in this video the format of the image continues to change - I wonder if in a full dome you could also work with black framing and having it grow smaller or langer by tiny tiny increments, hardly noticeable - to create close up frames without having someones entire face grow over the dome?

Maybe this is a way to create more close- up shots without covering the entire dome..?

Sample sound from outdoor - to tell a story through sound - bringing the outdoor in..

The narrative

Rogers’ Werk: „ Arbeiten, die unser Verständnis von Isolation und Zugehörigkeit erforschen und immer wieder das Thema der gemeinschaftlichen Erinnerung und Gefühle fokussieren.“

End of State Forest - Burial - as 'cleansing' - as 'flying over' a landscape

she interweaves reality and fiction to reflect on experiences of loss, alienation and community.

> make the work a bit more universal, and less focused on only 2020 - pandemic situation but the universal, shared feelings of this time - human dealings, the emotions behind it as front and centre!

Turning poetry to sound

Insights cameratest:

Action should take place VERY far away from camera
> Tests show roughly 3-4meters depending on height of camera

Medium- height of camera looks

It was presumed that eyeheight is best: which is probably applicable for VR because here the person should feel naturally in the scene
but in fulldome the audience is lower than the action anyways so the camera can be slightly lower to also have the floor in the shot.
The heigher up the less floor.

IS THERE A WAY TO CRETE CLOSE-UPS? Can I crop into the footage?

Close-ups could work if they are entirely abstract - loosing direction/Orientation of up/down

If the sky is visible in an image it should be at top, otherwise needs to be obstructed! Make sure heaven/sky is never at left /right.

White Balance needs to be set so that entire image/especially the bright-white hues are not burnt out!

In the dome the centre of the image is always the top!

To film entire 360 VR stitching lines are always best left/right. (otherwise stand/tripod is humongoes and becomes impossible to sticht I think)
To film best done you only need the top - no stitching!

Style : Anne Imhof + Mouthless + Shades of Blue *fashion film - performance

Contact Jud with a sound concept

First nature shots
+ poetry into space

Simply from a storytelling perspective what I am trying to speak about becomes INFINITELY more clear when looking at just ONE NARRATIVE, ONE PERSON, to represent different stages. If different people show different emotional stages then they are not stages so much as varied ways of dealing with a situation. If I want to show an emotional range this message becomes much more clear when looking at just one person. Also the subject of ISOLATION and ALIENATION becomes much much more experiential when looking at a singular person. (With whom the audience then identifies, otherwise the audience is scrambling to orient themselves inside the Fulldome and is additionally constantly torn from one person to the next.)

Also the singularity of the ONE SPACE would become ruined if showing multiple persons.

When dealing with the topic of isolation, why did I want to show multiple people to begin with? To show how it affects us all? To show how we are 'all together although apart'? There was also the sentiment of wanting to show people from 'the scene' and what they are doing now - But this message too is obscured if they are all shown in the same place! For that message to come through each person would need their own space.

Also it doesn't seem quite 'right' if we are all to be alone at home to show groups of diverse people together..

*side note: its not unusual for performances to feat. just one person
* it's normal for music videos to focus on one person

& then the next question is; if it's just one person - should that person be me?
Because I know best what I want to portray? and I would need to work very closely with the one person and they would need to invest/dedicate a great deal of time to understand and portray what I want to portray?
But at the same time I am very much interested in finding out how others feel... and to show this..

We would need to do rehearsals - it wouldn't be the type of situation where they could show up on set and just do it..

Could I stand to see myself in a fulldome?
Could I put this work on my portfolio?

Dance could be a bit like Tai-Chai but fighting of a demon - like a type of exorcism ?

I would be scared for the only performer to be me but at the same time I need to develop the emotional script, the movements etc. anyway so I could skip the middle person and having to brief someone by doing it myself..

Possibly way of showing, poetry or titles?

The fridge is a type of portrait: What is in it?

eggs?
Bottled water?
biers?

After Effects technical questions:

Inspired also by 'TREE OF LIFE' showing nature in a way the story of becoming - of the world in a poetic, scientific manner >*look at the Reihenfolge again:

Maybe the nature narrative is moving from
1) URBAN (now)

2) VACANT URBAN (humanity disappearing - showing a type of Apocalypse - post humanity ) * hearing and seeing the drone but no people

3) FLYING SCENIC NATURE (Macro - overview - zooming out - the digital, mechanic eye - machine age )

4) CLOSE UP OF NATURE - (Micro - zooming in and feeling the connection with nature, calm, serene)

Shown as a type of 'pre' condition? A 'Flashback'
Or shown as a type of 'conclusion' - wish to 'return to'?

What are you trying to say by showing nature?
A return to nature?
'What if all this digital living shows us how important nature is?'

USING NON-3D VIDEO IN THE DOME:

*reconsider if you really need the drone?
BECAUSE fulldome by nature of the construction works best DOWN-UP

Down-Up

Extreme Close-up

Experimental

Medium - place action at bottom of frame

________________________________________________________ ?

What is the narrative ?

Progressing Digitalisation ?
Dealing with Isolation?
Corona Pandemic?/Dealing with Quarantine?

Videos go into VR Converter as well ? Answer : no

How to render the sound linked up to the JPEG sequence?

AE interface shows entire video but I can crop to part of it?

Greenframe problem with AE reading files as 29.94

260 films in 2880 - should I change it to 2048?

How can I make sure to import footage correctly in the future?

I want to have multiple takes over each other - to show the same person multiple times in the room - would you 'Key' something like this or faded opacity and is that insanely heavy to render on the computer?

For 'normal' video footage you just use the VR converter as well to convert it to fulldome?

Any experience on how to best film 'normal video' for fulldome 16:9? e.g. place focal point low

The floor needs to move up to the left and right for this perspective to work!

Natural to have the down-up perspective in the dome!

Build a set-up to film with the camera from the ceiling?
Because the middle of the camera is always the front and a topview would be fun because it would put the floor at the top and the people around the bottom.
- Top view could also be filmed with a steady-drone indoors?!
or filmed from ceiling

Just filmed from bottom up and heavily cropped in Aftereffects!
>* recreate it !

Keep in mind my nature is German, forest landscape -not American summer

Create this kind of blue-ish 'trist' colour > to avoid white-ness in dome > could be done in post-production?colour grade - and prepared during filming
= take the film further away from a realistic depiction
realism doesn't work in this medium

keep faith in live-action film for fulldome - when thinking of
Metahaven - Elektra
VR film with Grandfather

Pan Daijing

Malina Heinemann

Jannica Sandström

What worked nicely with the Metahaven film is to use real life footage but to put this blue - noise, dust like particle filter over the footage that BLENDS AND CREATES SMOOTHER TRANSITIONS and makes real life places more abstract.
These real places, and real people become abstracted, brought into a surreal place because it's good to keep in mind that the Planetarium as a medium is a 'magical place' - a place to be immersed and look at the stars (originally) and fulldome films are frequently abstract because its 'easier' to be immersed in something 'non realistic' because we will never be more immersed in reality than being in reality & we are used to such a high level viewing experience in Cinema that my production could not reach this bar.

Instead to tell something and communicate a message in fulldome, a level of SOOTHING ABSTRACTION is presumably required.

A 'blurring approach' (smooth) would be better than a 'chapter approach' (hard segmentation)

Is it possible to convert the 360 video to tiny planet and run that in dome?

METAHAVEN also shot non 360 footage and used the trick of mirroring and doubling the imagery..

Maybe the 'Shades of Blue' switch between nature and action shots is better translated in a fulldome between 2D abstracted imagery and 360 environment footage..

ALIENATION (not isolation)
digital living alienates us from ourselves how we feel (emotions) - in promise of community and belonging
digital living alienates us from the natural world around us ( which the the initial source of our life energy)

Today we experience the world through our screens - were we have seen everything, 'been everything' and dissolve turning into one
celestial consciousness, a cosmic goo
(digital quantification)
* trying to reconnect with nature but it all turning to digital pudding

Draft title 'Goo' * in this font

* Way of showing close ups and creating a focus? Also being more abstract?

* Way of showing what is on the phone! What is so interesting ? What is the person being consumed by?

* USE SOUND FOR AWHILE IN TOTAL DARKNESS

Using a room like a theater set

Edit: this is so specific to this time (highly negative and emotionally loaded time) can I make it more universal, more abstract, more timeless?
By speaking about 'alienation from ourselves and nature in search of entertainment, distraction and community/belonging?'

Alienation from ourselves in search of relief and belonging

Nature becomes a symbol of 'the true, the good, the pure'
OR 'Even nature is only mediated through screens anymore'

Edit: the theme of isolation is only communicated when showing a single person

Edit: Inspiration simplicity - instead of over engineering an elaborate 3 piece scene I could just focus on making one scene with sound and poetry that is really refined and focused

Transitions between (digitally mediated outdoors - indoors - and Internet blimps -) can be done in the AI/Machine learning morphing style! > solving issue of hard cuts in a thematic way!

*maybe to not start the movie in the fridge because it is not THAT important - almost more of a gimmick ?

A morphing - pudding narrative also makes sense with such style

& it can still reflect boredom on one hand and weird restlessness on the other - and its still a portrait of our generation but on a grander (non pandemic focused scale)

Working with generative GANS imagery I can create simulacra of landscapes that I didn't film myself but have the copywrite on!

(Option to create a split screen dichotomy - showing natural shapes, images, footage on the one side and synthetic counter parts on the other..? * Problem with copyright.. )

ALIENTATION

So at this point the concept - my vision - keeps changing quite a bit because I couldn't seem to get to the core of what I wanted to say with the initial ' a lot of people, isolation, pandemic anne imhof approach'. I'm having trouble letting go of it because I think it would really work but probably as a real-life performance and not as a fulldome film. Because I'm starting to realise that fulldome needs some level of abstraction - otherwise it's too blunt..some filter at least.

a performance on quarantine would make more sense for VR than for fulldome.
many performers is great for a performance but in a movie format - especially in a dome could be quite disorienting to not know where to look - because audience is so used to being guided

Additionally technicalities of the full-dome are becoming clear which are creating a new direction. i'm still touching on the same topics but in a more universal topic

so chapters don't really work because it should be smooth transitions

Synopsis

Plot and emotion > what you want to say > Summary of story

Logline: description of film in one sentence

To show a time-lapse 'Mario kart ghost ride style' to show the passage of time through multiple selves. But you need to question whether it would be so important to show passage of time and if to show it in this heavy-post-production way.

Deadline 31 March

extended storyboard (overview) ( be extremely specific, duration in the timecode, in domemaster format, > position everything, how are things moving !!, includes PLOT, visual description, sound- spatialized according to position in the room, technical column, scene name, TRANSITION BETWEEN SCENES (especially important in the dome)
(*Creating a full storyboard in this way also makes evident what is essential to the story, and what might be too much)
> incl. Moodboard
colourgrade
treatement (scene by scene, visual storyboard )
logline (description of the film in one sentence)
tagline (communicating the essence)
synopsis
(Plot & emotions > what you want to say / summary of the story) ( would include description of Epilogue and acts if structured in this way)

columns at top of page
sense of timing

MAX. 5 min including credits!

*Recorded performance

possibility for live performance in dome of flying drone? and vaccume cleaner? - but clarify in synopsis

Feb 5 - Ende der Vorlesungen
March 31 - Ende des Semesters

> present a detailed , PRODUCEABLE work in progress fulldome film, input of the course, thoughts, etc, > video file

30FPS
H.664 Mp4

Perspective: September 1st 2021 Possible to Submit to Fulldome Festival Perspectively in November 2021

> let Mohammad know when I want to use Insta 360 x1 - always films in VR

Spatial sound & Stereosound workflow alternative: sounddesign - >Protools (e.g. Stereo) > After > Plug-in > Placing & Moving the sound according to the speakers of the dome set-up

* General inspiration: 'Tree of Life' (Movie) abstract storytelling style

Stones are soft until you touch them

Identity post-internet - what it means to live know - how anything can be truth when you don't know - but how can you know?
we know through senses - through physical presence and lived experience - what happens when this is all deflated to a single plane - then stretched around you again?

how is this existence different from a dream - lived, felt, actively from a passive position?
As lines are drawn in physical barriers the lines between dreams, imagination, and stream of input deflate

how our relation to each other & nature has changed inside the mouth of another creature
primordial desire of returning to the womb
something of a death like state

The indoor is so outdoorsy- it functions almost like a bridge .

Synopsis: keep the last two paragraphs > 1-2 paragraph is more like an essay and a bit lengthy ( this can be kept as a kind of introduction in the treatment) / more like starting into a philosophy book

Tagline is very poetic > go with tagline approach > profile the essence > still needs some distilling and editing
> Focus more on what we see and what it means > focus on last 2 paragraphs and describe the course of the film

what you want to do > so that people see it clearly what you want to show!!!!

keep the writing style because the way you write reflects the visual language > using language to mirror what will happen

seems like it has the umfang of an Abschlussprojekt..

Even the font seems like a form of 'digital roots' typography which mirrors the topic < Great comment because this connects the gothic script which felt 'right' to the topic on a deeper level. / a connection can be seen

ver positive feedback on treatment as a type of 'presskit' to hand in for funding > showing who you are and what you plan to do - great!!

the logline : draws them in to want more - ' the pebble tat you throw in the water' > this st
ill needs work and doesn't need to include 'this 360 video' < include here the INDOOR - UTDOOR aspect of the story

overall nice reaction: class is very curious to see it / people want to see it

explain the 'dramaturgie' with stylistic devices

> thinking about what it does emotionally with the audience > how do I want people to feel in the dome?

Feedback

What kind of sound do I want for closing credits > what feeling should it end on?

Document naming:
Name _ Project_ Date

ideas: Tunnel transition: move audience with a zoom through portal

DESCRIBE MOVEMENT OF SOUND ACCORDING TO HEMISPHERE OF THE DOME - NORTH - SOUTH ETC.

+ Muslimgauze - Uzi Mahmood 3 !!!!! a baseline

End of Semester Deadline!

*Keep in mind; dark images work especially well

Next step: Apply Kreativfonds!

The larger the image /the further it is stretched out it seems the more immersive the impression because you get this sense of being surrounded by the landscape /imagery > so try for halving and stitching?

When I woke up in the morning I had the idea of using the fulldome in an analogy and using a fishbowl and Alobhe's face behind or head in a fishbowl..

Deadline 31 March

(1) Extended storyboard (use template)

(2) Synopsis
(2.1) Logline (description of the film in one sentence)
(2.2) Tagline (communicating the essence)

(3) Video sample

(4) Treatment with Moodboards
(5) Poem
(6) Kreativfondsantrag
(7) Finanzplan

(8) ggf. Production-progress-overview?

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final storyboards + ' work in progress (videos, images, sounds, drawings, stills, whatever else you have)'

Defining the performance:

Maybe it's not necessarily to look natural:
e.g. 'The color of Pomegranate' is very staged - it's not suppose to be natural, it's a tableau

Anne Imhof - slow- deliberate movements - general air of not being interested/not caring/ disconnection

Can you have performance without audience ?
can you capture aura of performance?

Have a 'drawing'/'A sketch' /'A plan'
make sure it is clear what feeling/emotion each scene is suppose to transport
+ ' A movement catalogue'
> 1 day build up
> 1 day rehearsal
> 1 day shooting

Actions in the space:

TIMING!
One-take? does it need to go quick? ( but she needs to go slow for it to make sense)
Multiple hers in the space? to show a passage of time?

Defining interaction with the camera:

Übergänge klar definieren - like Magda said - the transition from performance to GAN is maybe a bit harsh

Maybe I can use putting down the blinds as a transition - having the room go dark ..

send Iris poem so that she has an idea of mood

Read it like - bunny rogers + Malina + this: https://goeben.berlin/samantha-bohatsch-pallas

Transitioning:
I'm starting to warm up to the idea of having the GAN sequence not be a full-on GAN sequence but (like the sound) be a culmination of all the stages before.
> use it more like a transcient layer that floats above her.

Notes on Nature:
It's a bit difficult to show the nature because it is SUPPOSE to be the idealised idea of it ( this is what is visually most powerful when I see it in e.g. Shades of Blue) but the season hasn't come for that yet.

I'm feeling increasingly that not to use the GAN sequence on a whole would be the 'right' message and closing sequence but to layer the GAN sequence over the indoor performance sequence - also possibly with more abstract shots of Iris being closer to the camera.

Placement of camera?

Approx. time for Scene 1: 97 seconds = 1min 37 seconds
> feels a bit long?

> Shorten to 1 min - 1:10 min ( so that it doesn't feel too long ?)

> test recording of poem: 1:53

> so the poem can run as a narrative through the other scenes - only few short phrases during nature and continued during scene 2

While this could be longer ?

Interaction with camera?

Maybe the title mirrors a toothless grin?

Phase 1 - Recherche & Produktion: DONE

Phase 2: Videodreh der Performance 19-22ster April - DONE

Naturaufnahmen (inkl. Drohne) Im Thüringer Wald und Umgebung: 1-2ter Mai

Phase 3:
Fertig mit Schnitt: 10ter (Adaption für Kultusymposium Website)
Fine-tuning Postproduction - effects - colourgrade: 10-16ter
Sound to visual: 10-18ter

19ter Mai Deadline Goethe Institut

Production Timeline:

Phase 1 - Idea/Concept development and Production:

WS 20/21 until 18.04.2021
Videotreatment
Extended Storyboard, Moodboards,
Location Scouting, Casting, Set-Design

Phase 2 - Video production:
Performance shoot in Berlin : 19.04.2021 - 22.04.2021

Outdoor shots with drone : 01.05.2021 - 05.05.2021

Phase 3 - Postproduction:
Video edit and colour correction until 10.05.2021
incl. Image-collage with AI/GAN

Music-composition to video: 10.05.2021 - 18.05.2021

DEADLINE KULTURSYMPSOIUM: 19.05.2021

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Miniature flower world in a dark studio!!!