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The first VR film that Jessica produced was called World Tour, where she traveled the globe trying to show the extremes of earth conditions and trying to capture the essence of the following Kurt Vonnegut quote:
Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies – “God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
Jessica has continued to experiment and film around the world in order to better understand and help inform others about the emergent medium of virtual reality. Some of her essays on Medium are about the rebellious nature of VR users, who try to push the medium to it’s limit to break the experience. And she’s been exploring the nature of editing in VR where it’s less about cutting from frame to frame, and more about nesting worlds within each other.
She started to explore the nature of relationships within VR with her second VR film called Resonance, where you follow the violinist Tim Fain around various different sonic environments. There’s a series of doors and portals, and it turns into a bit of a ‘Where’s Waldo’ type of experience in trying to locate where the sound is coming from. It encourages you to look around the space and really notice the differences in how sound reverberates depending on the location:
Jessica is continuing to explore and experiment in VR and asking questions about how narrative is going to work in VR. What the right pacing for editing? How will timing, motion, location, and voice overs work together within a 3D landscape within VR? How does presence fit into the equation of passive cinematic experiences? How can you use the drive towards discovery to choreograph and orchestrate compelling VR experiences? And how will artificial intelligence eventually be incorporated into more dynamic and interactive VR experiences?
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