My cousin did a lap around the sun so I bought the man a pair of ADULT HEELYS ⛸ (not sponsored unfortunately). Started out at Eight KBBQ in K-town and then walked on over to R-Bar for drinks & drunken karaoke 🎤 Strap on your headset and tap in 🍻
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This would be one of my last “test-era” vlogs for a while. By this time, I had a pretty solid grip on frame composition, where to aim my camera, and I knew movement was possible so long as I was slow and steady, but I hadn’t actually tested it out.
So in this video, I got the camera on my Ulanzi mini monopod, because with traditional videography the rule of thumb is to keep your hands further away from the camera for smoother movement. The shakiest footage happens when your hand is gripping the camera body itself. On top of that, I took care to try to move slower, keep my subjects in the middle of the frame, etc etc. Hand held is def not the way to go for immersive-video if you don’t have gimbals and shit, but also I didn’t wanna be that fucking guy at a bar who hauls around a whole 7-axis gimbal with a key light blasting while tryna order a beer.
Imo, I think I pretty much nailed captions here. In my previous vlog, I started to experiment the caption placement, but here I feel like I got it down solidly. You could tell who was saying what, you didn’t have to crank your head to locate where captions were, it was all just there and accessible.
One major thing that I caught on camera that I’m particularly proud of, was at the end where my cousin is rocking out in Karaoke. I’ve seen dozens of live music performance vr180 footage, and very rarely did I think, “yeah this is good.” Too often the camera is right in front of the performer with no context of the audience so you’re got getting the energy and vibes from the crowd. And then you’d think, “but wouldn’t the energy come from the performer?” And it’s like, yeah but what’s the point of being in VR if you only got one thing to look at?
In VR, half the fun is looking around and exploring.
If you see a crowd to the left and right of you, it’s fun to see what their reaction is to the performance. Are they loving it? Hating it? Checking their phones? Any of the above helps build the immersion that you’re there with them, and I’m glad to have caught that in the Vlog, despite the shitty low-light capture quality of my camera.
Anyways, hope you enjoyed the vlog. As always, stay immersed!
