VR Journalism Workshop at Journalism Interactive

VR Storytelling

2016 Journalism Interactive ConferenceGainesville, Florida

Dan PachecoSI Newhouse School of Public

Communications Chair & Professor of Journalism Innovation@pachecod

[email protected]/newhousevr

VSTORYTELLING.ORGEverything I go over today can be found there, including handouts, video tutorials and even tips shared by students.

Here’s a special post just for this session:bitly.com/newhousevr

VR JOURNALISM IN CONTEXT

• 1436: Gutenberg Press• 1919: Radio broadcast and the spoken word• 1937: Television broadcast, images, live video

Chapter 1One-Way Communication

• 1988: CD-ROM, words, images, audio – we interact with content

• 1994: Internet. Find what you want, interact with people • 1999: Internet capable phone – anytime, anywhere access

Chapter 2Interactive Communication

• Jump inside a story• Transport your consciousness, feel physically present• Manipulate data as if it’s real

Chapter 3?experiential media

NOT JUST AN ADD-ONTHIS IS AN ENTIRELY NEW MEDIUM, LIKE WHEN CONSUMERS FIRST GOT ACCESS TO THE INTERNET

HOW I GOT INTO THIS

2013 – NONNY DE LA PEÑA

2014 – HARVEST OF CHANGE Gannett Digital

ConsultantDes Moines

Register2015 recipient of Murrow Award for innovative use of

video.

2015 – TEACHING1. Interactive Unity scenes for Oculus

Rift

2. 360 Videos for GearVR and Cardboard

2016 – DOUBLED ENROLLMENTTrained another prof (Ken Harper)

who is more focused on video.35 students in 2 sections doing

stuff like this.Some are already being

approached as seniors to jobs at big-name VR production studios.

FOR 360, WE STARTED WITH ONE OF THESE

NOW WE HAVE 9 (THANK YOU, DEAN BRANHAM!)

See eamples of what students are producing here: http://bitly.com/newhousevr

APPROXIMATE COST PER RIG:

$3,700

SOFTWARE:$427 per seat

AutoPanopro Video + Giga Bundle

CGI, video, stills and audio that exports to multiple platforms.

Note: most can be done with free version.

FREE, $500 for pro (academic pricing, on a

sliding scale)

NO STITCH SOLUTIONS

FOCUS IS ON OPTICS

Ricoh Theta S

GIROPTIC, SHIPS IN APRIL

NIKON KEYMISSION 360

You probably already have

some of these.

WARNING – DO NOT BECOME AN EXPERT IN

HOW THINGS WORK TODAY!

Focus on the content and storytelling techniques

Now let’s make some stuff together

Links to everything yo need can be found here:

bitly.com/newhousevr