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MM228 360/VR Filmmaking

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  • CRN: 32975
  • Credits: 4
  • Locations, days, times, and instructors:

Class materials

Textbooks

No textbooks required

Open educational resources (OER)

The following free or inexpensive materials are used for this class:

Details about this class

Join me this summer to experiment, create, and tell stories in immersive 360 environments.

No prior VR experience is required, but students should be ready to collaborate, try new approaches, and think creatively about how audiences experience stories.

This course explores ways of telling stories that move beyond the traditional screen and into immersive, 360-degree spatial environments. At the heart of the course is storytelling, creating experiences that invite viewers to step inside a moment, see from a new perspective, and form a deeper connection to the story.

Students will develop skills in immersive storytelling, learning how stories change when the viewer is placed inside the scene and can look around freely. Instead of working within a fixed frame, students will begin to think about storytelling in a 360-degree space, where both the creator and the viewer shape the experience.

Our time together is built around weekly hands-on, skill-based learning. Through a series of workshops, students will build practical experience in immersive media production, including 360 video, interactive 360 photography, immersive audio, photogrammetry, and shared or constructed virtual spaces as storytelling environments.

Throughout the term, students will create a series of short projects that explore different ways a story can be experienced through observation, exploration, and participation. The course will also include collaborative field-based projects with departments on campus and Hungry Mantas, a local organization, where students will capture real locations and transform them into interactive 360 experiences.

By the end of the course, students will develop a final immersive storytelling project that reflects their voice as a storyteller and considers how an audience experiences the work. 

Skills from this course connect to creative and professional work in multimedia production, video production, immersive media, interactive storytelling, documentary, education and training media, virtual production, UX/UI, and experience design.

Technology

All tools and software used in class will be introduced through hands-on in-class lessons and will be available on our campus.

Software programs we will use are:

Tools we will use (school-provided)

Browsers and websites we will use

  • Google through PCC log-in
  • Firestorm Viewer 
    • For Second Life. We will set this up together and go through a learning session first.
  • Kuula

No show policy

Your instructor can mark you as a "no show" if you do not participate in your class during the first week. This will remove you from the class.

Students with disabilities

Students with disabilities should notify their instructor if accommodations are needed to take this class. For information about technologies that help people with disabilities taking Online based classes please visit the Disability Services website.