Category: 360 Filmmaking

Once we had all of our clips prepared. We began importing them into Eevo. After they all finally imported (it took forever) we started to position them and organize them based on the structure. After positioning them, we added the exit flags and connected all the clips.

Once all the clips were connected, we had to go into each scene and position the exit flag button above our After Effects button as the button we added in After Effects was just a graphic and it was Eevo that was actually adding the ability to click it.

Then all we had to do was save and stage the video. You can play through it by clicking the link below.

https://play.eevo.com?narrative=f4lfldm6&t=TPtl9-2O6NS4CLGEX68saxoQj32cyL81gYyhXiGCCdKOwTyO7cYMCetv6jcto_PT

We began by writing down the structure of our story. Imani did the actual writing as she is so incredibly good at drawing circles.

After determining the structure, we decided to film. We didn’t have tripods so I had to hold the camera as still as possible while we filmed. We got all the shots but had to improvise when it turned out we weren’t allowed to film in the library. Instead we got a shot in the art shop.

After filming, we began to upload the footage from the camera to the computer. Once it was all downloaded we imported them into After Effects where we planned to add clickable buttons to each choice. I did this by creating a shape layer, then a text layer on top of it. We decided that we would want the viewer to explore each scene for a couple seconds before they had the choice to move on so we made the buttons fade in after 5 seconds. Once the first button was complete, all we had to do was copy and paste for each shot, changing the text accordingly. You can see the layer breakdown for one of the shots below.

After positioning the buttons for each shot we exported out each clip to prepare for Eevo.

When Pierre first told us about this project I was excited. When I was younger I really enjoyed reading the interactive books where depending on what choice you make you flip to a certain page and the story continues from there. So you can imagine I also enjoy interactive films.

My first idea came almost instantly, an interactive film based off of a night of partying. It starts out and you are deciding what to wear, who to go out with, what party you want to go to, etc. My favorite part of this though was going to be that if you decided to drink too much I would put a drunk effect on the video so it would genuinely be hard to navigate. There would also be the choice to take mystery drugs from a stranger and maybe those would give you crazy visuals where everything is colorful and wavy.

Well as you can imagine I was super disappointed when Pierre went on to explain the requirements. We had to film it on campus and it was supposed to be like we were giving a new student a tour of the UAL campus. So lame. Luckily Pierre met me in the middle and said it doesn’t necessarily have to be a tour of UAL, but it does have to be filmed on campus. Me and my team decided to do a first day experience where you essentially have 2 different paths. One is the normal go to class route and one would be the “bad kid” path. The film starts outside of the building and you have 2 choices, you can either go in to the canteen or go smoke. The good choice and the bad choice. We figured that if you keep choosing the bad choices, it gets to the point where you are in the full After Effects room and there’s just trippy colors and visuals all around you. We thought this would be fun as it would be so different from all the other scenes and would almost feel like a secret room.