The future has come! An exclusive analysis of the VR movie "The Secret in Time Projection"
Special feature of 1905 film network On July 30th, the first VR movie about youth love in China was officially released. As a film focusing on immersive experience, brand-new audio-visual and beautiful youth journey, the public release of this 20-minute work shows to some extent that the technical experiment of VR film is gradually moving towards the mainstream market.
In the current movie market, VR movies have not yet formed a scale, but today, with the popularity of 3D movies, VR movies can bring viewers a more immersive viewing experience than 3D or even 4D movies. More and more filmmakers have paid attention to the field of VR, and more and more people have begun to devote themselves to the creative experiments of VR movies. The future of VR film has infinite possibilities, and many people are curious: will it mark another beginning of the film as it did then?
When mentioning the differences between VR film shooting and traditional movies, the director of "Secrets in Time Projection" mentioned: "When we shoot, we need to always wear heavy title equipment, which is different from the monitor when shooting traditional movies. The picture presented inside the title is a virtual shadow. After shooting, we have to export its material on the spot and make rough cuts to see the shooting effect."
Because the VR movie needs the audience to browse 360 degrees in all directions, it is very different from the traditional shooting methods, and the picture presented is not on a plane, but inside a sphere, which is a huge challenge for the creative team.
Not only that, VR needs to interact with the audience to break the dimensional wall, so that the audience can focus on the parts of interest independently in the scene. Because the audience’s eyes are no longer limited to one plane, how to mobilize the audience and let the audience follow the plot has become a challenge for VR film creation.
Director Yao Tingting made his own attempt: using sound design to guide the line of sight. For example, there is a scene in the film where the plane flies from the sky, and the audience will naturally be attracted by the sound. At this time, the audience will coincide with the heroine’s line of sight in the film, thus producing a chemical effect of interaction with the role.
Although VR movies are usually rated as "like games" by the audience, the sense of game should not be the development direction of VR movies. Therefore, how to distinguish the boundaries between VR movies and games has become an important topic for creators. Director Yao Tingting mentioned that he came into contact with VR games first and was influenced by the games before he came up with the idea of shooting VR movies.
When she filmed "The Secret in Time Projection", she deliberately weakened the sense of game and used the idea of drama to create. However, because the VR film made the traditional audio-visual language invalid, after the film was released, there were still audiences who bluntly said that it was like playing a youth love game.
At present, the conditions for shooting and watching VR movies are still immature, VR theaters are scarce, and there is still a long way to go before they are popularized. There is no small room for improvement both technically and artistically. But people also realize that the VR future envisioned by director Ready Player One may be slowly approaching us.
It can be expected that VR movies, like the "train" that slowly entered the station a hundred years ago, brought unprecedented shock to the audience.
Today’s film reviewDirector’s observation:I saw this film in the traditional propaganda materials of the previous film, but I haven’t seen the VR film and heard some controversies, so I operated this topic with curiosity. Two scenes were constructed to present the dialogue between the viewers and the main creators. The new visual technology experience is interesting, but the presentation of the content still has barriers with the traditional film narrative! Furthermore, I also understand that it is not easy for the industry capital and the practitioners to pay attention to all aspects after the heat wave fades. For the first time, in the first episode of the program, the host in the shed+the host on location+the director, was Xiao Zhang okay? Cheer yourself up ~ oh yeah! (Xiaoli, director of Today’s Film Review.)