AP Interview Jia Zhangke programs virtual reality romance

BEIJING (AP) - Critically recognized Chinese director Jia Zhangke says he will create a virtual reality film next year with a romantic story as he plus viewers get used in order to the new medium, and declared: "I think VR is going to end up being the next big point. "
The director, better known for films that depict China's social changes and acts of violence, told The Associated Press the short film would be a gentle romance as "it takes period for people to feel comfortable" in virtual fact.




"The speed and direction of movements may create people feel physically unpleasant, so we're starting with the romantic story, " he or she said in an interview.
FILE - In this particular March 17, 2016 document photo, Chinese director Jia Zhangke poses after successful the Best Screenplay honor of the Asian Movie Awards in Macau. The particular t.co director says he will certainly make a virtual reality movie next year with a intimate 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, but film festivals are beginning to showcase VR films as directors venture into the new medium. It provides a much more solitary experience compared to watching the movie in a packed theater.
VR requires a headset that blocks out there your surroundings and enables you wander through a tale in a different world - either by relocating a few steps within various directions or sitting down on a swivel chair and moving your entire body to appear around a 360-degree scene.

The fake atmosphere is, nonetheless, often reasonable, but film makers are nevertheless trying to work out how to tell a story in VR.
"I am still studying VR and trying to understand it at the moment, yet I'm very interested within this new-technology which enables us view space from different angles, " Jia said Saturday.
It also gives the audience more strength because they choose what in order to watch.
"In the past, the audience could just imagine the world inside and outside the frame, " he said. "VR liberates an audience plus allows people to separately choose what we should want in order to be concerned with. Audiences be a little more important. "

"Today, we are able to divert our attention from your close-up shot in a traditional film that will we had to view 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 Festival, who told him that he felt the VR medium impinged on the ability of a movie director to tell a story.
Pe?a recalled a short VR detective film he got observed in which "the filmmaker wanted me to appearance left but I wanted to look right. inch

Jia said he thought the filmmaker "probably do a bad job" plus suggested a director could deploy actors whose movements could direct a audience's attention.
Jia has explored China's rapid transformation all through his career, which consists of early underground films, documentaries and international film event prize winners, 2006 "Still Life" and 2013 "A Touch of Sin. "
He spent years making underground films before censors allowed his first movie to be released in Chinese cinemas in 2004.



Jia will the following month start his own video loading site, "Jia Screen, inch that he said would premiere 108 short movies from around the globe.
Jia told the target audience at the talk structured by Columbia Global Center in Beijing that whilst today's technology and various streaming websites in China permitted people to make and add their own films, those weren't being seen because the public didn't know which usually of the thousands to watch.

His platform will certainly "work as a link to bring the information to the audiences rather than requesting the audiences to do the job themselves, " he or she said.