Use of Virtual Reality tools to animate a workshop for the creation of playful and atypical collective audiovisual works.
The QIFF (Quimper Images & Films Festival), a young festival (2nd edition in 2023, produced by l’association Gros Plan) dedicated to innovation in the field of animated images, proposed for the second time a virtual reality film-making workshop, led by Benoît Labourdette.
In one afternoon, for several groups of people who follow one another, I propose to the participants to experiment in a playful way with the Virtual Reality camera, to explore new paths of creativity: distorted images, amazing body movements and postures, quadraphonic sound, photography, binocular video and “planisphere”... I propose successive exercises, viewed collectively and shared between each other. After each step, we move on to a new experimentation, based on the participants’ desires.
The principle of the workshop is to do and then watch. Each exploration is collective, in the form of a chain (the camera is passed around), in the spirit of the literary “cadavres exquis” of the surrealists. The participants are also invited to take pictures of the workshop in progress, and then put their pictures online in the sharing space. They leave with a QR code, which allows them to access the films and photos made.
Through play, risk-taking, experimentation, and time for looking and dialogue, everyone’s thoughts on the subject of Virtual Reality have room to form.
Interview of Benoît Labourdette in the Usbek & Rica media to evoke the stakes of this workshop.
Discover the productions and the collaborative documentation of this workshop:
https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/_docs/projets/2023/2023_qiff_vr/
Announcement of the workshop in the festival catalog
Understanding virtual reality filmmaking
Hands-on workshop open to allThe films called “VR” (Virtual Reality) are films, linear or interactive, shot with 360° cameras, that we view either on screen by moving in the image with the mouse or the finger, or with a headset placed in front of the eyes by turning the head.
This workshop questions this new technology in an interactive way!This session is open to everyone, without registration, during which you will be able to make small 360" films, very playful, and see the result!
Workshop led by Benoît Labourdette, filmmaker, educator, expert in new media and cultural innovation.
—
(Article header photo: Adeline Boit)
