ROOMS – People, Space And Changed Realities
- Submitting institution
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University of the West of England, Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 852499
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
- Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
- Month
- February
- Year
- 2019
- URL
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http://vr.zdf.de/rooms/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- “ROOMS” is the first Cinematic VR film (CineVR) produced by the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (Germany), funded by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg’s DIGI.TALe programme that commissions innovative and experimental narrative content.
Directed by Christian Zipfel, this award winning 360 documentary invites audiences into five, private, strictly regulated, yet culturally significant rooms, exploring the dramaturgy of these spaces and their inhabitants. The audio plays a critical role by representing narrative, action and location with novel spatial cues (distance, direction and acoustic), extending beyond the audience’s gaze and enhancing their sense of presence in those spaces.
Reed, invited to contribute by the audio team, addressed concerns from preproduction to distribution, lead and co-created the practices of the crew in audio recording and post-production. He was consulted about the emerging delivery standards for Higher Order Ambisonic (HOA) spatial audio in CineVR.
The project develops novel and practical working methods for audio recordists and sound designers working with HOA in feature length, non-fiction CineVR formats. New knowledge was developed for: treating raw A-format synchronous production audio and decoding of directional virtual microphones from its B-format ambisonic transform; encoding and up mixing both production and post-synchronised ambisonic and conventional audio sources into the HOA domain; mix considerations for the effects of convolution with different Head Related Impulse Responses used in binaural exhibition platforms; and versioning and localisation methods for international distribution. The project subsequently informed Reed’s Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers paper “Audio Reproduction for VR Cinema – position paper” (IEEE FAVR, Osaka - Japan, 2019).
The film premiered in August 2018 at the 75th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica la Biennale di Venezia - VR Competition. It won the “Prix Immersion” at the 47th Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema in October 2018. In February 2019 it was released online by the trans-European broadcaster ZDF Kulture.
“ROOMS” is the first Cinematic VR film (CineVR) produced by the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (Germany). It won the “Prix Immersion” at the 47th Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema in October 2018. New knowledge was developed for processing and treating Higher Order Ambisonic (HOA) spatial audio in CineVR, as well as up mixing other audio sources into HOA and versioning for different platforms and distribution methods. The work has had over 25 international screenings to date.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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