RiVR - Immersive knife crime awareness video for Yorkshire Ambulance
The RiVR production team have been working on an immersive 3D 180 production highlighting the dangers of knife crime in the UK. This production took place in and around Leeds in the UK.
The team didn't have access to the Canon VR 180 dual fisheye lens for this production so the team had to improvise to get a similar result using the INSTA 360 ONE X2 cameras side by side as you can see in the rig image above.
The film was headed up by Scott Gibson (Director) and Catherine Jeynes (Producer) who co-wrote the screenplay back in 2020 prior to the pandemic.
In October of 2021 the film was finally given the green light to shoot again and pre-production began ready for filming in late December.
Camera testing and storyboarding was undertaken by Tyronne Leon-Fernandez and Dan Mitton who were the VR cinematographers for the project with pre-production and planning running alongside testing.
Once all this was done and ready, the team of 4 embarked on the shoot which spanned across a busy week of principal photography before the Christmas break.
Below is a behind the scenes video where we get an up close and personnel account of what happened on the shoot in Leeds! This is split down into 3 sections.
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This shoot in particular was very challenging as the team had to create a custom squib rig for having blood appear whilst the victim is stabbed. This is made even harder because of the unique nature of 3D 180 video means you don't get multiple takes like you do with 2D video. Because you have to re shoot the scene in its entirety every time.
For this shoot the production team had to source actors and actresses from the local area to cast all the different roles in this video.
Luckily the scouting team found some amazing real world locations that helped add to the realism of the production.
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