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Interactive "Sad Songs" – Director

My interest in interactive videos has grown steadily since my first introduction to 360° videos during grad school. I've been brainstorming and creating new experiences ever since. The concept for "Sad Songs" was to create a music video where the viewer was the director. My original concept was to have 24 different shots the user could select from by using keys on the keyboard. But I predicted 24 different videos play simultaneously would be to cumbersome so I scaled it down. After some consultations with Wirewax, we worked out the slider concept. Wirewax found solutions to all the hurdles I ran into including syncing and a mobile-friendly version.

Virtual Reality Inside "Need Somebody" – Director

Thanks to Song Exploder, Google Web Experiments, and my friend Doug Blase I was able to create a virtual reality experience that took the user inside the song. Each stem of the song is a glowing bouncing orb that the user can turn on/off but also move closer/further from, which in turn affects the mix. It's truly a surround sound experience in that the direction you look or place you stand can change the aural experience.

360° Music Video "Little Love" – Director

I bought a 360° video camera on a whim and loved the concept, but the coolest piece to me was figuring out how it worked. Once I cracked the technical logistics of 360° video I started thinking of how I could repurpose it. "Little Love" was shot on a Panasonic GH4. I edited the four layers together with Adobe Premiere Pro and then wrote in the metadata that makes the video wrap onto itself.