Wonda VR
June 16th 2017
- Honkytonk Films was born in 2007 in Paris.
- Founded by Arnaud Dressen and Guillaume Urjewicz.
- purpose: produce interactive documentaries for the web: a new kind of films
- one of the pioneers in webdoc / idoc
- after Honkytonk's first interactive documentary "Journey To The End Of Coal" (2008)
- the producers developed Klynt, a codefree and easy-to-use software, designed to create interactive videos / documentaries for the web
- both for internal use and external consumers
- they started working on Klynt in 2009, it was released in 2011
- Klynt became an international reference
And then...
VR !
2016: new software: Wonda VR
- "child" of Klynt: codefree, intuitive, easy-to-use
- same interfaces for storyboard (non-linear narrative) and sequence editor
- different and innovative: designed for 360 video/photo
- different and innovative: designed for VR Headsets: Gear VR and Cardboard, rather than the web
Interactive 360 ?
Yeah, more than a 360 video on Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook...
Hackathon Schedule
- Friday night, after the talks: teams + theme/concept + teams brainstorming on their project: story, mise en scène, storyboarding.... until midnight
- Saturday 9 AM: briefing for 360 video shooting, tests
- Saturday 12 PM: teams go out in Lisboa and shoot
- Saturday 4 PM: teams come back, 360 stitching, video editing if necessary with Premiere Pro / Final Cut Pro
- Saturday night: first draft with Wonda VR, prototyping, until.... (very) late
- Sunday 9 AM: Wonda VR editing, finishing projects
- Sunday 3:30 PM: deadline for finishing !!!
- Sunday night: projects presentation