Professional Storytelling for Virtual Reality

Catalog description

This production-oriented course teaches students in media how to tell stories interactively using computer-generated scenes that subjects experience through leading virtual reality headsets. Students will experience the VR world through production lens by producing VR stories through the use of professional platforms such as Unreal Engine and Unity. The stories will aim at promoting commercial products and news. Thus, they will get experience creating stories for various types of communications, including entertainment, journalism, advertising and public relations. The target platforms for this course are the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard phone-based viewers.