360-Video Talk at ONA2012
360-Video and Innovation Talk at ONA12 from Ryan Jackson on Vimeo.
Andrew Satter @asatter discusses innovative video techniques. Ryan Jackson @ryan_jackson talks about his 360-video projects and an open discussion on video with the audience happens at the end. Enjoy! Sept. 22, 2012 at Online News Association annual conference ONA12 in San Francisco. http://www.ryanjackson.ca http://www.asatter.com

Ashley and I are driving back to Edmonton from San Francisco and I have limited internet connectivity so this blog post will be fully updated with links and quotes in a couple days.P.S. If you ever get a chance to drive the west coast, DO IT!
This is a super duper quick list of the links I’ll be sharing at the #ONAunconf Unconference session at the 2012 ONA conference in San Francisco
Try to do something different. NOT TV. “make something worth talking about” – Seth Godin.
-Multimedia — use best tool to do the job. … sometimes video, sometimes sound slides, sometimes panoramas, sometimes interactives.
– I want there to be a holodeck like on Star Trek!
-I want to have the news beamed into my brain like in the Matrix or Simpsons.
PICTURE
-We’re going to get there before you know it
Getting closer!
#1. put me there.
–360 panorama Twitter CEO yesterday
I hate boring video
. Passive vs. Active. We will sit down and watch TV for hours (passive) but it’s hard to watch a 2-minute video online (active)
Make your videos active.
-Interactive Talking Heads
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something simple…
Interactive Political Debate Video
-I shot video. Lucas Timmons figured out the API and he blogged
HERE how to do it.
-28 mins of video here. people spent WAY more time on it than if it was just a normal linear video.
-think backwards. how do you wish you could watch long videos that are boring?
Immersive Video
Make videos immersive and interactive.
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Blog post about shooting 360-Video.
Watch 360 Dodgeball Video on Edmonton Journal
Went viral. picked up by Gizmodo and got 10,000 hits in an hour. which 10k x 100mb video = a lot of bandwidth!
Slave lake 360
-took this tool I made and used it for something more serious and breaking news
“Google Streetvew” style 360 video tour
360 Street View Tour of Slave Lake after Wildfire Devastation
-got special access because this video could be used as a service to the citizens.
–Blog post about making my own Google Street View Tours
The next year I returned and shot 360 Before/After Panoramas showing the reconstruction
Lucas Timmons created the map.
Blog post about re-shooting the panoramas from the same place.
-next year later i returned and did the exact same route. thank god for GPS. Lucas Timmons
-Next, combine those two ideas. Start with one project and build on it for the next.
360 election – Interactive Coffee with politicians
-how be used for something different. scarcity. interactive, put you there.
Interactive 360-degree interview with political leaders:
Blog post about interviewing politicians in 360-degree video.
Choose your own adventure game
Interactive 360 “Choose your Own Adventure” Tour of Edmonton Carnival
-Best viewed on iPad.
-now this is cheesy but think of it as a little town. You could do panoramas of a small town or neighborhood and make it so you go to each section and talk to people.
-360 video on a Roller Coaster
-Start with one thing and build build build on it.
-i use KRpano.
-interfaces with VR headsets and game controllers.
-360 isn’t for everything
-A LOT OF TIME.
-must be super duper interesting topic to get good ROI
-must be something worth looking around for.
TimeMachine
Collaborated with Carnegie Mellon University
-contacted them and collaborated
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Zoom into video and move around in time and space.
-dodgeball again! 1st – viral…2nd. 360…3rd… time-lapse in time and space…
-URL and video screenshot
GigaTAG Facebook.
Also created a Facebook GigaTag so you potentially have 5,000 University students tag themselves in Facebook.
GigaTimeBot
Dynamic time lapse of CAPITAL EX
-every hour update video.
-just PHOTOS…