The ACM-NE is happy to support and co-sponsor the upcoming 360 Filmmaking Training and Professional development day on Friday, March 23rd from 12:30pm-4:45pm at Brookline Interactive Group. This is for community media centers and is organized by Brookline Interactive Group and their project, the Public VR Lab.

If you can’t make the training on Friday, March 23rd, you can still join us for our FREE VR Happy Hour from 5-7pm where you can demo VR, talk to members of our team about our work in the VR/AR/360 space, have an ADULT beverage or two, and try some of our VR-in-the-Public-Interest experiences.

This is only available to community media centers. We have a limited number of spots available for the training, so please sign up asap! REGISTER ONLINE HERE!

360 Filmmaking & Storytelling Training Schedule
March 23rd from 12:30pm-4:45pm at Brookline Interactive Group

Well-designed virtual reality (VR, AR, 360) experiences can invoke a powerful sense of wonder, empathy and have a transformational effect on the viewer as the full frame of VR allows for an experiential story and an immersive experience of the the viewer. In this half-day, hands-on training, you will learn how to use these emerging media tools to create immersive stories using 360 video for your community and media center.

This half-day workshop will cover the following topics:

  • Overview of 360, AR & VR basics
  • Examples/use cases of immersive community-based stories in 360 video, VR and AR
  • 360 Filmmaking: Hands-on exercises using the Nikon Keymission 360 cameras; capturing high quality footage
  • Editing in 360 – learn the basics to get started editing your videos, experimenting with text, transitions, etc.
  • Uploading 360 to the web

VR Happy Hour Party: FREE!
5:00-7:00pm

During this fun party, you’ll have the opportunity to demo VR experiences, network with your fellow community media colleagues, and dance to great music.

This training and party are specifically for community media professionals, and is sponsored by a collaboration with the Alliance for Community Media Northeast Region (ACM-NE) so all ACM-NE members will receive a tuition discount for this mini-conference day! Three scholarships will be made available in the case of need for media centers with budgets under $300k.

You are welcome to attend both the training and party, or either. Please complete this form to register for the portion(s) of the event you will be attending. We have a limited number of spots available! Please email Erin Kinney, erin@brooklineinteractive.org with any questions about this event.

About Community VR:

Over the past two years, BIG has been developing in-house capacity and expertise in VR, AR and 360 through our project, the Public VR Lab, which was co-founded with our sister station, NCTV, in Northampton, MA.

Public VR has trained the STAT news team at the Boston Globe, were invited to present, demo, and create a customized air pollution VR experience for the United Nations, spoken nationally and globally on VR Storytelling panels, hosted a VR Ecohack- and monthly hackathons, piloted a number of VR, AR, WebVR and 360 public projects with libraries, historians, filmmakers, and with arts, cultural and tech organizations, are leading a national Immigration VR collaborative project and started a VR Academy to educate our community and beyond on these emerging media tools and techniques.

Since they can’t do personal tours for all of you who have requested coming to BIG and learning about our project, they’ve hosted sessions at ACM national and regional conferences, at NATOA, and on-site at PhillyCAM in Philadelphia, and this April, they’ll be at Open Signal in Portland, Oregon presenting at the ACM NW conference and providing a free training to community media folks there.

If you’re interested in hearing more about our vision for Community VR, check out Boston VR’s Virtuality Podcast and interview with me about how our community media center has moved into the XR space with our Public VR Lab project and how they want to share and support other media centers with all that they’ve learned! Check it out here: https://soundcloud.com/virtualitypodcast/010-rachel-bisbee-brookline-interactive-virtuality-podcast