Reflection

I decided to choose Virtual Reality and tourism since I found the topic in one class related to the topic. I found it very interesting, and I wanted to explore more about it. I wanted to share the messages of the possibilities to travel from people’s homes. I was fortunate that a friend of mine lends me his VR glasses, that make easier planning every clip and show to my audience how can use the device. Also, I use many images to show many places that people can ¨visit¨ or visualise through the device. In this way is how I share the message to my audience.

The strategies I employed in my video were: Prepare the information, the message, and how I wanted to produce my video. In my planning, I started to investigate about the topic, and I found some articles and valuable information that helps me to plan the video. Once my friend lends me the glasses, I start using it before the video, and I decide to take some photos in a park and to record a clip in there acting like I was exploring the place through the device. Then, I search in Flickr some images of places that the people can travel. Also, I used some from my gallery. From the parts where I talk in from of the camera, I took the previous recommendation from the last assessment, and I change the framing of the video moving from another part of my room, and I found out that the lightning there was better. I was enjoying all the experience before I start editing. Editing was a real nightmare for me, trying to put all together and cut the things being my first time editing. I realise that I need more practice. I spend like three days editing and complementing the video. I use YouTube many times to learned how to use my editor (iMovie). However, I figure out how to compile everything efficiently. The music that I picked was electronic because I think that gender suits the topic. The transitions with the images, the clips and the music combine quite well.

The lessons that I learned from the challenges that I encountered and how I solved them were. I didn’t have many problems with this video. It was a good advantage that I start doing the panning and the material assessing in advance. So, I have plenty of time to work in my script, clips and research. But the most challenging thing for me was editing. I was trying to write in the pictures and the credits. I had to start many times again because the text was deleted. Sometimes the sound of the music didn’t go with the video and with my voice. I solved all this with YouTube. I search for all the things that were difficult for me using the editor. For this assignment was easier talk in from of the camera because I could delete what I didn’t like it. I took the clips almost in one shot, but the voice in off of the images and the final clip I had to repeat many times and still messing with my words.

Credits

Music

Santuary of the Sky Gods by Nathaniel Wyvern (CC BY 4.0)

Slow Pogo by Loyalty Freak Music (CC0 1.0)

Other music and sound effects by iMovie

Images

Home by Sally (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Japan- Kyoto by Marc Veraart (CC BY 2.0) X3

The moon tonight by slworking2 (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Valley of the Moon by Ade Russell (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

VR TRAIN by Taylor Herring (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Virtual Reality Demonstrations by Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (CC BY 2.0)

Research

Champion, EM 2019, Virtual reality adds to tourism through touch, smell and real people’s experiences, The Conversation Media Group, retrieved 28 August 2019, <https://theconversation.com/virtual-reality-adds-to-tourism-through-touch-smell-and-real-peoples-experiences-101528>

Tussyadiah, P, Wang, D, Jung, TH & Dieck, MC 2018, ‘Virtual reality, presence, and attitude change: Empirical evidence from tourism`, Tourism Management, vol. 66, pp. 140-154, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2017.12.003

All other images and footage by Natalia Cardona