360 Practice Shoot and Workshops

Never having done 360 film before, this was a very new and exciting experience for me. Our tutor went through how to work a go pro and how to use the 360 rig which was tricky as it was very different to anything I had used before.
It was a simple enough design. It's cube shaped, and has six go pro cameras that fit into a slot of each side. These create a 360 view of their surroundings. When you have completed your filming you import the footage into a specialist software called Omni Importer. We also use Auto Pano Giga and Auto Pano Video.

We decided to do a practice shoot to see what we could do with the technology, and get a feel for the sort of thing we would be doing, with the advantage of having a tutor around to assist us. We used a handle to attach the 360 rig securely to a BMX bike and did a quick film where the bike was ridden down the road and filmed as it went. We then used the quick stitch that the Omni Importer allows and exported it. This was the final result.



If we had uploaded it to youtube we would have been able to click and drag to view it as if it was 360 rather than just look at it like this which is quite disorientating, and there were also some stitching problems as the subject was quite close up to the cameras.