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ON MAKING VR
In these early days, independent filmmakers are ideally positioned to make innovative VR. Why? Because you guys know how to use your imagination to leverage limited resources to tell innovative stories! We know that VR might seem new and inaccessible. Have no fear. We penned this two-part introduction to the fundamentals—and philosophy—of VR filmmaking to break it down for you!
Space Out of Time: Part I
An Intro to VR Technology
Space Out of Time: Part II
An Intro to VR philosophy
ON DISTRIBUTING VR
One of the biggest barriers to carving out a sustainable career in VR is, how the heck do you distribute or watch content? Enter our friends at Wevr.
VR might be new, but there have already been 20 million headsets ( from Oculus Rift to Google Cardboard ) sold, and 50 million experience downloads. VR is growing, and it’s growing FAST. And Wevr’s new platform, Transport, is going to create the market for independent VR. By early 2017, when you're ready to release your first immersive film, you'll be able to upload your experience directly to Transport, and share it with the world.
The best part? Seed&Spark and Wevr have partnered on a VR marketing grant. Every VR project that successfully crowdfunds on Seed&Spark is automatically eligible for ad dollar support—to help make sure the world knows about what you're creating!
ON FUNDING VR
You can make VR on an independent film budget. How do we know? We've done it! Crowdfunding is the best possible way to raise the funds to make VR, because it simultaneously gathers your audience and teaches those audiences how to watch and engage in a totally new medium: VR cinema. After all, the astounding technical innovations of VR don't matter if audiences don't know you're making rad stuff to watch—or how to watch it!
What we've been up to
Over the last year we produced three virtual reality experiences with Wevr under BRIGHT IDEAS Pictures, and learned a LOT while doing it. We’re now working on one of the world’s first VR features. Our films ( available on Transport ) are currently touring around festivals like Sundance, Slamdance, SFiFF, and SIFFx—where we’re sharing our learning with filmmakers.
The Visitor
At a beautiful and austere desert compound, a young couple prepares for the woman’s greatest fear to arrive.
Memory Slave
For two years, Mary Klein has watched her technology turned from education tool to drug. And she can't stay silent any longer. But opening her mouth has bigger consequences than she could possibly have imagined.
Hard World For Small Things
An accidental shooting in Los Angeles explores issues of identity, empathy, and how a single event can come to define an entire life.
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