"More Than Meets The Eye" Animated VR Experience

Animated rough test for comic style ident/call to action for the PhD EAD conference in April. https://ead2019dundee.com/  #EADPHD

Powerpoint presentation at Supervisory Meeting No_04. 17 Jan 2019 With Phillip Vaughan and Fraser Bruce. Sent electronically to Caroline Erolin. Notes: Use UoD template, so easy to see! Research the facts on blindness VR Notes on Blindness clip. Consider gateway 'gates of engagement' Blind Awareness - underlying knowledge, to take action? What do I want to happen after it? Check Black Mirror on Netflix for interactive storytelling If interactive, how much control does the viewer have? Do choices in interactive narrative actually make a difference? Why? Make it personal and narrative led Film for which audience? Storytelling narrative, who for? Blind, Tech? Sighted? Why do I want to tell this story? Research Esport (multi-player video game played competitively for spectators, typically by professional gamers) and Overwatch More research into VR literature Is this entertainment for the blind? What makes a good film?     ...

Possible gate-keeper (external examiner) Leeds Trinity University International Research Centre for Interactive Storytelling Dr Hatana El-Jarn http://research.leedstrinity.ac.uk/en/persons/hatana-eljarn(9ccaba4b-1f7d-4f40-98c5-c24676294b39).html Professor Graham Roberts http://research.leedstrinity.ac.uk/en/persons/graham-roberts(e3b4dd4b-aa83-4a71-b1bd-75d0c6166a40).html Bournemouth University Dr Fred Charles https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/fcharles Dr   Jose Fonseca https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/jfonseca Dr Brad Gyori https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/bgyori Bath University Dr Simon Hayhoe https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/simon-hayhoe

My Thesis in 10 Steps 80,000 words for Arts & Humanities, plus a practice-based output Size of a small paperback. Problematic, in that it is small and yet has a lot of requirements. A thesis is....an exam paper Viva is about the candidate 2 examiners (1 internal, 1 external) Review university rules about who can choose the external examiner Send the university rules to the external examiner The candidate can play an active role in selecting the external examiner Include the external examiner in the reference list The thesis is a written document to satisfy one person's needs (the external examiner) 18 months into the PhD, make a list of dialogue partners (externals). Meet at conferences and watch them. See their posters. Who would I like to work for? Ask people who've done a viva and thesis, what their experience was like. Research what is required in terms of presentation Papers are a condensed version of a thesis. Any papers written or published, outl...

http://theenemyishere.org/making-of Making of There were a number of challenges in creating The Enemy: To access reclusive and often out-of-reach individuals active in armed groups. To come equipped with the right material and the best team. To create a simple backdrop, a neutral light, and a professional studio in difficult locations. To master the technology of 3-D scans, to explain it to the combatants, and to perform scans of each of them. And while on location, to precisely record the body language of each of these men as they speak, as they move and as they look at me with eyes that say so much. Then, back in Paris, to arrange all of these interviews by each tenth of a second and to put them in a spatial dimension. To integrate this material into a new form of journalism. To think, to test, to design, to rethink, to test again, to develop, to start all over again, in Montreal, New York or Paris. To boil down the countless conversations with producers, team members, engineers...

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/interactive/after-the-storm/#/no-longer-impossible Camera click - to show cultural probes? Mouse scroll forwards and rewinds footage