Design of Experiment 03 and Preparing for Shoot

 360 Art Gallery / Portfolio Experience

• Artworks eg paintings are exhibited on the walls.
  
  
• User experiences an art gallery tour in the room
  
  
• Other application for this filming method include hotel room , retail space and real estate apartment.
  
  
• The advantage of this method is the output is a non-interactive 360 video that can be uploaded to YouTube for free distribution. You don't really need an interactive video that usually comes with a subscription cost to host.
  
  
• No cameraman included in the shot so that the user can have a clear 360 view of the space without any obstruction.
  
  
• The user will be transported to all the rooms for this case ,when the 360 video plays from start to end. The user can however, scrub to the timeline of the video and pause it to spend more time in the 360 still environment.
  
  
  

 Research on Similar Art Gallery Experience

National Art Council (NAC) do show case interactive 360 art gallery experience where the user is able to click on a hotpot to move to another location in the gallery or click on the pictures for more information about the artist. This is done by using Matterport Camera to 3D scan the environment and Matterport software to add hot spots and published the virtual interactive experience in the web. 

Applying Experiment Results

•  Use the horizontal movement of minimum 1 second to a maximum of 5 seconds.
  
  
•  Instead of regular interval of one tile movement , any positioning error between 1-2 range is not noticeable by the user. This is useful because instead of positioning movement to the center of tiles , now i can position the movement to the center of the painting.
  
  
• As for vertical movement I would like to have the user to view at the consistent height ( adult height ) throughout the experience as I would like to maintain the 1st person perspective without breaking the immersion by changing the viewing height drastically.  I approximate the tripod height to the height of my eye level using the selfie-stick extension add-on.
  
  
• From the experiment changes in height is not noticeable if the user is in the center of the room and objects are further away.
  
  
• Users might not notice if there are minor readjustment of tripod height during re-shoot of scene.
   
  

  Prepare for Shoot

• Equipment : Extension to tripod , height of camera is at the eye level of an adult.
• Material : 3M double sided tape to mount artworks on the wall.
  
  

  Design of Art Exhibition
  

  The curator job in an Art Museum is to design the experience for the audience. There are many artworks in the museum collection and it is impossible for the museum to display them all. The curator's role is to rotate the collection to be displayed by deciding on which artworks goes on display based on a theme and period of the art exhibition.
   
  I have to put on the hat of the curator to create an art exhibition for my 360 video production. I do have quite a bit of artworks including "sculptures",  however only the larger pieces and can be wall mounted are chosen. After that looking at what I have and the amount of wall space , I then think of the theme or story to connect the selected pieces , bearing in mind I planned only about 1 minute and there cannot be too much narration or VO ( voice over). The focus is the teleportation of the 1st person in the art exhibition room.