Assignment 4: Improving Crouse Bell Tower 360 Video

This week my team and I finally got to go to the top of the Crouse Bell tower to get our interior shots. As the Executive Producer of this project, I was able to get in contact with a Chimemaster and schedule time to have her play for us. It was an amazing experience going up to the bells. I was on set for both of our shoots (exterior last week and interior in the tower this past weekend). My job on set was dealing with the cameras, syncing them,...

Assignment Number Four

My group's project changed from recording the football game, to recording dance team practice and performance, to ultimately doing a campus tour. Luckily, the failures served as a learning experience. Firstly, confirming schedules; the football team didn't have a game the two weeks we had to develop our project. Secondly, confirm all the equipment is up to par. In our first shoot of dance team practice, the wifi did not work on two of the cameras. This set off a domino effect in which we had to manually fix the...

Assignment 4: Johnny Cho

Since our team (Cameron, Michael, Dylan, Johnny, Charles) is organized, we have changed the topic a lot: (1) football game --> (2) Dancing team -->  (3) Campus tour. Even though we had lots of trial and errors to finish the project, I was always happy to enjoy every moment because this is how we learn the 360-degree camera. Here is what our journey is all about. (1) Football game There was not football game within the project duration, so we cannot make a film from the football game. IT didn’t...

Assignment 4 – Crouse Bell Tower

https://youtu.be/YjQcdx01LfA Our group project was to document the Bell Masters of Crouse at work. During our first shoot of exterior shots, it seemed the project would run smoothly…then we went to editing. After strategically planning out four different viewpoints of Crouse from various parts of campus, only one clip ended up being stichable. One time, one of the cameras stopped recording halfway through so we lost that scene. Another time the times didn't match up and for the other scene, we still don’t know what happened with it, but when...

Assignment 4 – Carly Port

Our group ran into issue after issue in working to improve our 3 stitched scenes for tomorrow's class. After Juan had to hand synchronize one of our scenes due to the audio of dribbling basketballs messing with synchronization, we struggled very much as a group in figuring out how to place our Nadir correctly. Eventually, Erika realized that our patch was the wrong dimensions which was causing it to improperly convert.   This assignment has been extremely useful for me as I've had no previous experience with Premiere or any...

Simulation of Drunkenness: Lessons learned

The purpose of this 360 video was to simulate the drunkenness of a person on a party. We were five group members which had different strength. Because of the diverse team, we could split the tasks and learn from each other. I was responsible to set up a story board which showed the different content as well as the duration of the scenes. After setting it up, we met to shoot the video on Friday. Everybody were there and we shot the video together. The day after, we met in...

Making it Better: Crouse Belltower 360.1

https://youtu.be/YjQcdx01LfA Our group was working on a project to immerse viewers in the Crouse Bell tower and experience the bell ringing up close, revealing the hidden world of the Chime Masters (yes, that really is their title).  Our initial shoot was a simple outdoor scene, which showed the outer bell tower structure, while we waited to get clearance to enter the bell tower.  This was a straight-forward shoot, and an easy stitch. Our next shoot was a lot more challenging for the videographers: the spaces inside the tower were narrow,...

Assignment 4- Erika Zoffer

Erika Zoffer As I am writing this from hour 5 in the computer lab with Juan, we are still contemplating how we could possibly find another solution to add our nadir into our work. We have run into every problem from having to restitch a video manually to trying 10 different ways to save our Premier file as a png. Yes, Juan frame by frame figured out how we could stitch a scene without synchronizing to audio or motion. This was necessary since, similar to the problem that the team...

Assignment 4: Cameron Spera

For Assignment 4, our group went through a lot. Our original idea (way back a couple weeks ago) had been to shoot Dance Team practice, which we did. It turned out well, except one of our cameras completely froze on us, so there was a huge black hole in our final video. Other than that, the idea worked well so we thought we would just reshoot and it would be fine. We shot the Dance Team again, this time in the Dome. It was an awesome time because the Dome...

Assignment 4 – Jason Mussman

For this video we made several improvements, some small, yet powerful.  We made minor editing in premiere, put together a nadar hole and applied the nadar hole to the video.  We also added some key statistics at the end of the video to help show the importance of knowing ones limit.   I was in charge of production for my team.  I arranged meeting times, coordinated schedules, and took the lead with stitching the videos in AutoPano Video/AutoPano Giga.  For the improvement project I oversaw the editing, that Luke did (He...