How we made "THE GREAT" VR Experience (2/3)

"ONE STEP" - Part II

"The thing about 360 is it gives you control of what you want to see.

When you're watching normal TV or a movie, the director decides what you are going to see, and he shows it to you. But when you have 360, or VR (Virtual Reality) type of experience

You can look where you want to look."

- Astronaut Terry Virts

When you first arrived at Guadalupe Island, 250 miles offshore, you see a "waterfall of clouds" falling out of the summit of the island. There is a dramatic feeling when you first see the island after a day of cruising the open ocean.

"Isla Guadalupe is probably heaven on Earth," said Underwater Cinematographer Jannicke Mikkelsen, as she went out of the water after the first time she dived and filmed great white sharks with a 360-camera system. "I just had the best dive ever of my whole entire life right now!"

Great white sharks migrate to this remote island for a good reason, this is a feeding ground for them. Home to colonies of Guadalupe fur seals and northern elephant seals, this island is a unique diving spot at the Eastern Pacific.

a 360-image with a great white shark, "The Great" VR Experience

Virtual reality experiences give you control over what you want to see. In a way, you become the director in a new medium. You can watch the same film over and over again through entirely different perspectives.

When you shoot with this type of camera systems, you have to maintain a certain distance from the objects of the camera. In other words, you have to think out of the box to pull out the shot.

Biologist Erick Higuera introduces us to the Self Propelled Ocean Cage - a one of a kind scientific tool of the @PelagicFleet, which aims to survey and document great white sharks. This unique tool can get scientists and filmmaker closer to sharks, learn their behavior, and record them at depths of up to 40 meters.

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- CREDITS -

"ONE STEP": Behind the Scenes of "The Great" VR

Produced by Regi Domingo, Erick Higuera, Jannicke Mikkelsen, Terry Virts, and Roy Kimhi

- THE GREAT VR CREDITS -

A VR film by Roy Kimhi

Executive Producer: Jorge Cervera Hauser

Producers: Jannicke Mikkelsen, Roy Kimhi, Jorge Cervera Hauser

Associate Producers: Regi Domingo, Erick Higuera

Music - Rising Storm by Cody Martin

Director of Photography: Jannicke Mikkelsen, Roy Kimhi

Drone Pilot: Terry Virts

Self-propelled cage: Erick Higuera

Post production by VRTUL INC:

1. Executive Producer of Post Production: Casey Sapp

2. VP of Post Production: Matthew DeJohn

3. Post Production Supervisor: Keith Kolod

4. Compositor: Eric Heaton

Graphic Design - Ana Sofía Morales del Río

Solmar V Crew:

1. COO - Rodolfo Rodríguez Díaz

2. Captain - Gerardo Pazos Hernández

3. Chief Engineer - Aurelio Haro Serrano

4. Second Engineer - Álvaro Arturo Vázquez Bovio

5. Chef - Antonio Hernández Ballesteros

6. Sailors - Luis Godínez Castro, Andrés Montes Rodríguez

7. Steward - Bernardo Manolo Metaca

8. Dive masters - Daniel Zapata López, Ignacio Hernán Leyro and Guillermo Pablo Franco.

Operations - Enrique Amézquita and André Ortega

Transportation: JB Charters

Hospitality: Carlos Spilker, Matthew Meier

Pelagic Fleet Board: Jorge Cervera Hauser, Carlos Cornejo Jurgensen, Salvador Cababie Moro, Patricio Rodríguez Díaz

Special Thanks: Mauricio Hoyos, Jorge De Haro.