AP Interview Jia Zhangke programs virtual reality romance
BEIJING (AP) - Critically recognized Chinese director Jia Zhangke says he will create a virtuelle realit�t film following year with a intimate story as he plus viewers get used to the new medium, plus declared: "I think VR is going to be the next big factor. "
The director, better known for films that depict China's social changes and acts of assault, told The Associated Press that the short film would be a gentle love as "it takes period for people to really feel comfortable" in virtual fact.
"The speed and direction of movements may make people feel physically unpleasant, so we're beginning with a romantic story, " this individual said in an job interview.
FILE - In this March 17, 2016 file photo, Chinese director Jia Zhangke poses after winning the Best Screenplay honor of the Asian Film Awards in Macau. The director says he will make a virtual reality movie next year with a intimate story as he plus viewers get used to the new medium.
(AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Virtual reality entertainment consists mostly of video games, but film festivals are beginning to showcase VR movies as directors venture into the new medium. It provides a much more solo experience when compared with watching the movie in a packed theater.
VR requires the headset that blocks out your surroundings and allows you wander through a story in a different globe - either by moving a few steps within various directions or seated on a swivel seat and moving your entire body to look around a 360-degree scene.
The fake atmosphere is, nonetheless, often realistic, but film makers are still trying to work out how to tell a tale in VR.
"I feel still learning about VR plus trying to understand it at the moment, but I'm very interested within this new technology which lets us view space through different angles, " Jia said Saturday.
Additionally, it gives t.co the audience more power because they choose what to watch.
"In the previous, the audience could just imagine the world within and outside the framework, " he said. "VR liberates an audience and allows people to independently choose what we should want in order to be concerned with. Viewers become more important. "
"Today, we can divert our interest 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 the brand new and useful idea. "
Earlier Saturday, Jia spoke at an event with Richard Pe?a, former director of the New York Film Celebration, who told him that he felt the VR medium impinged on the particular ability of a 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 needed to look right. "
Jia said he thought the filmmaker "probably do a bad job" and suggested a director can deploy actors whose motions 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 celebration prize winners, 2006 "Still Life" and 2013 "A Touch of Sin. "
He spent years producing underground films before censors allowed his first film to be released in Chinese cinemas in 2005.
Jia will next month launch his own video streaming site, "Jia Screen, " that he said would premiere 108 short films from around the globe.
Jia told the target audience at the talk arranged by Columbia Global Center in Beijing that while today's technology and various streaming websites in China allowed people to make and add their own films, those weren't being seen because the particular public didn't know which of the thousands to watch.
His platform will "work as a bridge to create the information in order to the audiences instead of inquiring the audiences to do the particular job themselves, " this individual said.
