Evaluation of 360 'Wings' Film

I felt like our Wings video was successful as it did what we wanted it to do which was to be an observational piece of interactive film where by you can view butterflies flying around the camera. I knew that we could have made it more poetic however editing on this kolor software took a very long time and was very slow so it was hard to tell at time what the final outcome would be like. It was a case of tail and error and we kept coming back to it and trying to improve it through the Kolor software. I really feel like we pushed ourselves with this technology though because we experimented with it and got a good outcome.

The filming process was very fun even though I was worried about it. We had no problems with the camera or the Rig and managed to get it all set up to film relatively quickly and easily. I feel this is due to the practice we have had with it during workshops and also the time we had to prepare the equipment over the weekend before our shoot day. We had a lot of fun when there because we got to explore the whole park and scout out the best locations. Once we had decided where to put the rig we got it in place and took about 7 shots in the butterfly house. We knew for certain that we had captured a lot of butterfly movement in the last three shots we did in there which was good. We left feeling very happy and confident and when we got to review the footage it was such a relief to see how nice the butterflies movements actually looked on camera in this 360 way.

Editing was the hardest part of this process and we faced many problems at first trying to work out where all the tools were and how to use them but after some time playing and experimenting we began to get to grips with it. We followed the suggested work flow making a few tweaks of our own and once we had worked out how to d everything on this first shot it became a lot quicker and easier to repeat this process/workflow with the other shots. This editing process relied very heavily on a good workflow and even though at first it took a while to get into the stride of this once we worked it out it went more successfully.

The main problem we encountered was that in a lot of our clips the butterflies did at time come up very close to the cameras which was exciting to see however it caused problems with the stitch lines. We tried to improve these as best as we could but found most the time we could only make improvements but never fully fix it because the butterfly was just simply too close. We made a decision though to keep thesis shots in anyway as we though the few sticking issues was worth it to at least give the audience some more excitement.

Overall I wished I could have produced something maybe longer and more poetic however I know for the time frame we are working in it was not possible. I am just very happy that I got to experience this new technology first hand and make something different. I feel these skills I have learnt could very very interesting to apply in the future.