Assignment1: What are QTVRs

before i start writing about QTVRs i felt i should put a brief description about what they are;

"QuickTime Virtual Reality delivers a photorealistic virtual reality experience...QuickTime VR comes in two distinct flavors - panoramas and object movies... A QTVR panorama let's you stand in a virtual place and look around. it generally provides a full 360° panorama and the ability to tilt up and down about 120°"

Excerpt is page 614 from:
Guil,S (2004), QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh (3^rd edition), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers: San Fransisco


i will not be making an object QTVR so i will not bother talking about it. we have also been told today that our essays will have to use the Harvard Citation System.

now hopefully you wont be lost when i talk about QTVRs. just in case here is an example.

Assignment1: What are QTVRs

before i start writing about QTVRs i felt i should put a brief description about what they are;

"QuickTime Virtual Reality delivers a photorealistic virtual reality experience...QuickTime VR comes in two distinct flavors - panoramas and object movies... A QTVR panorama let's you stand in a virtual place and look around. it generally provides a full 360° panorama and the ability to tilt up and down about 120°"

Excerpt is page 614 from:
Guil,S (2004), QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh (3^rd edition), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers: San Fransisco


i will not be making an object QTVR so i will not bother talking about it. we have also been told today that our essays will have to use the Harvard Citation System.

now hopefully you wont be lost when i talk about QTVRs. just in case here is an example.

Assignment1: Creating panoramas for QTVR

i now have my first assignment the brief is as follows.

Brief
Produce at least two QuickTime VR movies using a camera, Photoshop and a piece of Jpg to .mov stitching software such as Real Viz Stitcher.

You should take all the Photographs yourself in two to three locations to make at least two combined images (long shaped images) which will be constructed in Photoshop.

You may, if it helps you, form a vague narrative or theme between the images and the following is a list of suggestions:

Chase or follow
Scene of a Crime
Tourist Guide
Day in a Life
Sense of location

it was made clear during class that i should try produce 3 QTVRs and that having a strongly linked theme would increase my grade. with this in mind i tried to come up with a few ideas for a rough theme that i could use:

• Advert
• Where's Wally (Waldo)
• Portrayal of mood or feeling
• People spelling words with there bodies
• creating a story using hand dawn elements in Photoshop

i feel that making my QTVRs into adverts regardless of the theme would be a good idea as i would allow me to additional effects in Photoshop.
i also tried to think of a few idea of interesting places to take the images but i don't think that is as important as this stage because i need the theme to fit the location, the ideas i had in mind where:

• Underpass
• small cluttered shop
• room
• Internet cafe/LAN arena

i have taken a set of practice images which i can use along with the practice images already provided to test blending and see if there are any problems that i can avoid when shooting.
i took the practice images in my room and have already found one problem, which is because my room is quite small the images only display a small amount of the room (i will explain in more detail when i upload the image). to stop this happening again i need to shoot in more spacious areas.

About This Blog

i felt the need to make a first post before i start blogging, just to explain what I'm using this blog for.

i have just started a two year course at Brighton University studying Digital Media Design (fda). I'm doing this course at the Lewes campus. One of the first things we had to do was set up this blog which will be used as an additional method of assessment.
you will find all my projects that i undertake over the next two years posted on here as i work through them from start to finish. you can find links to the blogs of the other people on my course here.


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