Shoot and Edit

On our shoot day we took all the equipment we had booked out round to Nicole's house and began to set up in her Grandads studio.
We made sure the Go Pro rig was charged and had SD cards in and ready to go, and formatted them before we began. We attached the rig to a light stand and placed it in the center of the room. As for the room itself, it was well lit and needed very little doing to it. There were already really interesting objects in all corners, we simply laid out his sketchbooks so they were in view and that was it.
One of my favourite parts of the room was that the ceiling had loads of items hanging from it as well which was really great for us because of course, it's 360 so people can look everywhere.

Once we had imported our footage we had to colour grade it. As it was all filmed on the same camera at the same time we luckily didn't have to correct much of it, it was more of a making sure the lighting was okay, and that it looked good. We ended up have the doorway slightly over exposed but when we lowered the brightness then the rest of the room became too dark. We decided that the room was the most important part to have well lit so we kept the doorway a bit too bright in exchange for having the room well lit.

When we made our quick stitch, it worked quite well already and didn't need loads doing to it. There were however, a few bad stitch lines and so we used masking to fix them. We placed the mask points over those areas that were overlapping poorly and most of the time they got better. There was one stitch line however that was not very good and no matter what we did we couldn't get it to line up properly which was very frustrating.

We also used control points to help, and ours were all green from the start so there wasn't a lot for us to do. 

For our sound we had recorded Nicole's Grandad talking about the items in the room. The idea behind this was that it would direct the viewers gaze to areas around the room, so the could drag the camera around with it. 

We recorded a lot more of him talking than we needed and so we spent a lot of time cutting up the sound and making it run smoothly from one clip to the next. I had been holding a shot gun mic to record him, but on occasion he had moved away from the mic to quickly and so that section of the sound was quieter, so I had to play around with the volume of various clips so that the sound all matched up.