AP Interview Jia Zhangke plans virtual reality romance
BEIJING (AP) - Critically acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke says he will make a virtuelle realit�t film next year with a romantic story as he and viewers get used in order to the new medium, plus declared: "I think VR is going to end up being the next big factor. "
The director, much better known for films that depict China's social adjustments and acts of violence, told The Associated Press that the short film would certainly be a gentle love as "it takes period for people to feel comfortable" in virtual actuality.
"The speed and direction of movements may make people feel physically uncomfortable, so we're beginning with the romantic story, " he said in an job interview.
FILE - In this particular March 17, 2016 document photo, Chinese director Jia Zhangke poses after winning the Best Screenplay prize of the Asian Movie Awards in Macau. The director says he will create a virtual reality movie next year with a romantic story as he and viewers get used to the new medium.
(AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Digital reality entertainment consists mainly of video games, but film festivals are starting to showcase VR films as directors venture directly into the new medium. It provides a much more solitary experience when compared with watching the movie in a loaded theater.
VR requires a headset that blocks out your surroundings and enables you wander via a story in a different globe - either by relocating a few steps within various directions or seated on a swivel chair and moving your body to look around a 360 degrees scene.
The fake environment is, nonetheless, often realistic, but movie makers are nevertheless trying to work away the way to tell a tale in VR.
"I feel still learning about VR plus trying to understand this at the moment, but I'm very interested in this new technology which enables us view space through different angles, " Jia said Saturday.
Additionally, it provides the audience more energy because they choose what to watch.
"In the previous, the audience could only imagine the world within and outside the body, " he said. "VR liberates an audience and allows people to independently choose what we want in order to be concerned with. Audiences become more important. "
"Today, we are able to divert our attention through the close-up shot within a traditional film that will we had to watch in the past, inch added the 46-year-old Jia. "I think it's a brand new and valuable idea. "
Earlier Sunday, Jia spoke at an event with Richard Pe?a, former director of the particular New York Film Event, who told him that he felt the VR medium impinged on the ability of a movie director to tell a tale.
Pe?a recalled a short VR detective film he experienced observed in which "the filmmaker wanted me to appear left but I wanted to look right. "
Jia said he believed the filmmaker "probably did a bad job" and suggested a director can deploy actors whose movements could direct a audience's attention.
Jia has discovered China's rapid transformation throughout his career, which consists of early underground films, documentaries and international film festival prize winners, 2006 "Still Life" and 2013 "A Touch of Sin. "
He spent years making underground films before censors allowed his first film to be released in Chinese cinemas in 2004.
Jia will the following month release his own video streaming site, "Jia Screen, inch that he said might premiere 108 matabokep foto short movies from around the globe.
Jia told the viewers at the talk structured by Columbia Global Center in Beijing that while technology advances and various streaming websites in China permitted individuals to make and add their very own films, those weren't being seen because the public didn't know which usually of the thousands to watch.
His platform will "work as a bridge to create the information to the audiences rather than asking the audiences to accomplish the job themselves, " he said.
