AP Interview Jia Zhangke plans virtual reality romance
BEIJING (AP) - Critically recognized Chinese director Jia Zhangke says he will make a virtuelle wirklichkeit film next year with a passionate story as he and viewers get used in order to the new medium, plus declared: "I think VR is going to become the next big thing. "
The director, much better known for films that depict China's social adjustments and acts of violence, told The Associated Press that this short film might be a gentle love as "it takes time for people to feel comfortable" in virtual fact.
"The speed and direction of movements may make people feel physically unpleasant, so we're starting with a romantic story, " he or she said in an job interview.
FILE - In this March 17, 2016 file photo, Chinese director Jia Zhangke poses after winning the Best Screenplay prize of the Asian Movie Awards in Macau. The director says he may make a virtual reality film next year having a passionate story as he plus viewers get used in order to the new medium.
(AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Virtual reality entertainment consists largely of video games, yet film festivals are starting to showcase VR films as directors venture in to the new medium. It provides a much more solitary experience in comparison to watching the movie in a loaded theater.
VR requires the headset that blocks out your surroundings and allows you wander via a story in a different world - either by moving a few steps within various directions or sitting on a swivel chair and moving your entire body to appear around a 360-degree scene.
The fake atmosphere is, nonetheless, often reasonable, but movie makers are nevertheless trying to work away the way to tell a tale in VR.
"I am 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 from different angles, " Jia said Saturday.
Additionally, it provides the audience more strength as they choose what to watch.
"In the past, the audience could only imagine the world within and outside the frame, " he said. "VR liberates an audience plus allows people to individually choose what we want to be concerned with. Viewers be a little more important. "
"Today, we are able to divert our attention through the close-up shot in 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 important idea. "
Earlier Sunday, Jia spoke at an event with Richard Pe?a, former director of the New York Film Festival, who told him that he felt the VR medium impinged on the ability of a director to tell a tale.
Pe?a recalled a short VR detective film he got observed in which "the filmmaker wanted me to appear left but I needed to look right. "
Jia said he thought the filmmaker "probably do a bad job" plus suggested a director could deploy actors whose actions could direct a audience's attention.
Jia has explored China's rapid transformation throughout his career, which includes early underground films, documentaries and international film festival prize winners, 2006 "Still Life" and 2013 "A Touch of Sin. inch
He spent years producing underground films before censors allowed his first movie to be released in Chinese cinemas in 2004.
Jia will the following month launch his own video streaming site, "Jia Screen, " that he said might premiere 108 short films from around the planet.
Jia told the audience at the talk structured by Columbia Global Center in Beijing that whilst technology advances and various loading websites in China allowed people to make and add their very own films, those were unable being seen because the particular public didn't know which of the thousands to watch.
His platform will certainly "work as a link to bring the information to the audiences rather than inquiring the audiences to do the job themselves, " this individual said.
