The Stage is Set

Condensed Reality work in a high tech studio inside an old converted Victorian dock building overlooking the waterside in the heart of Bristol. And it was here, Zach and I found ourselves on a Monday morning ready for a film shoot unlike any other.

The stage contained 10 individual cameras, 8 large tungsten lights, 4 massive speakers and a central floor where the action was to be filmed in 360 degrees. Zach had prepared a piece of music to tap dance to, while the cameras caught the motion for transferring into Augmented Reality.

After a brief warm up, equipment was double checked and Zach took to the floor. Each of the performances took around 3 minutes, and in that time Zach improvised a dance routine to the unseen digital viewers that will watch him dance on the their mobile devices. After each performance we viewed the dance on a laptop to check the cleanliness of the camera crop showing his movements against a plain blue background.

In a few weeks time we will see how this Augmented Reality filming will be used… Watch this space! (quite literally)