Filming With AR/VR | WVU RAPID & WVU Film Club

In fall 2018, student organization RAPID collaborated with the WVU Film Club to create a 360 video to inform an audience about the film-making process. Watch the video below and drag the image across the screen to move around the room.

RAPID president Mark Schoenster details the process of creating the video and the collaboration with the Film Club.

So, back in the fall of 2018, Jeffery Boggess, the Film Club president, and I met to start planning a collaborative 360 video. We didn’t have any ideas until we found a 360 music video that showed a band performing in different venues that were all placed in one room. We came up with the idea of creating a circular set that went through the stages of making a film. Basically, there would be four main quadrants with different parts of making a movie with smaller parts sprinkled in there. Jeff would narrate the process and walk through how a movie goes from square one to the premiere. So from there, we rented out the Blue and Gold Room in Towers and created a set that featured the writers desk, the casting auditions, a costume department, the movie set, a editor at her computer and a projector for the premier of the film. The actors would portray their scene while Jeff walked through it and then would partake in some silly actions while Jeff was not around. The idea was the viewer would follow Jeff the first time watching the video and then check out all the other hijinks on second and third viewings.

This was a really cool opportunity because it really showed me what RAPID should be all about. We are not a huge student organization, but we can work with the other Reed College student orgs and give them a chance to bring their product to new media formats. -Mark Schoenster, RAPID president