John Travolta was cautious about filming the VR version of upcoming movieSpeed Kills. It was a completely foreign format to him, and while the process was familiar, the nuts and bolts of actually doing it were not.
But as he worked he started taking to it, Travis Cloyd, VR producer, director and CEO of Observe Media, tells me at the 2018 Cinequest Film Festival. In fact, Travolta felt like he could be himself and better express his creative abilities when an entire harem of gawking crew wasn’t there staring at his every move.
It was a similar story for Nicolas Cage while he was shooting the VR version of The Humanity Bureau, Cloyd explains. Both situations have required veteran Hollywood actors to dive into an entirely new medium and rethink the way a scene is built.
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Cloyd, who won the VR Visionary award at the festival, works with his team at Observe Media work to help film production companies bring their movies into VR. We spoke to him about what it’s like using 360 video, how VR is the ultimate VR canvas, and why you should be excited about the future of VR content.
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Source: Wareable