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360 Video Training | Course Outline

Namak Khoshnaw

 

DAY ONE

Morning

  • What is 360 video?
  • Watching two examples of BBC Arabic 360 films
  • Viewing in the headset and on viewing on Facebook
  • NYT tutorial: 101 intro to VR

Afternoon

  • Introducing the camera (Samsung)
  • Live view demo on mobile phones
  • Introducing the GoPro Omnirig (turning on the camera, avoiding overheat, shot length, distance from subject, eliminating shadows and selfies)
  • Live demo indoors of shooting with OmniRig

 

DAY TWO

Morning

  • Storytelling for VR: what works and what doesn’t
  • Why are you shooting in 360? Is there a good reason?
  • Viewing examples: NYT Inside Fallujah / UNHCR Clouds Over Sidra
  • Discussion of these films
  • Coming up with Cairo VR ideas

Afternoon

  • Camera training: basics
  • Technical elements of using the camera (set up, positioning, what 360 sees)
  • Recording audio with Zoom H6
  • Shooting 360 footage outside (as one group)

 

DAY THREE

Morning

PRE-EDIT

  • Importing the footage
  • Stitching video (AVP and AVG software)
  • Flattening the horizon
  • How to sync audio

Afternoon

OFFLINE EDIT

  • Using Premiere-Pro
  • Scripting and structuring the film for 360
  • Selecting music for 360
  • Voice Over for 360

 

DAY FOUR

Morning

POST-PRODUCTION

  • Removing ‘ghosts’ and perfecting the stitching (using AVP and AVG)
  • Removing shadows and tripods in After Effects
  • Stabilising the footage in AVP
  • Colour correction in Premiere

Afternoon

EXPORT

  • How to export 360
  • How to inject metadata so it works on Facebook and YouTube
  • Uploading to FB and YT

 

 

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