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An Orange partnership, a cross-functional collaboration of France Télévisions' innovation services later... and we had a 2-minute VR film!
A few months ago we were telling you about this virtual reality experience. Yes that one. The one where you were going to sit in Anne-Sophie Lapix's place two minutes before the 8pm news launch on France 2.
Remember while watching the video of the shooting :
The first returns
This experience was therefore born and was exhibited at the Journées du Patrimoine 2018 in front of more than 500 visitors, and then at Digital Day on September 18, an event reserved for internal employees, where even the president Delphine Ernotte came to take the prestigious position of presenter of the 20 Heures.
I can tell you that many have experienced the uplifting stress of arriving on stage in front of millions of viewers! Anne-Sophie Lapix herself got caught up in the game by putting on the helmet that teleported her on the set of the newspaper she knows so well.
The strong point of this film is its realism. The actors are the real employees of set C, the image is in stereoscopic 6K and the sound is so well worked with 32 spatialized tracks plus a "headlock" in your right ear that you can only believe it!
Well, I got a bit carried away, so I decipher: The protagonists of the film are the people who were working on the day of shooting on April 21, 2018. We had warned them beforehand, and Arnaud Vincenti, the film's director and artistic director, coached them for the staging. Some of them will remember it for a long time because they had chosen their job so as not to be in the "sunlights" and find themselves in front of 24 cameras you are talking to when they don't say hello or smile to encourage you - well it wasn't natural! Yet it is on them that the film is based in terms of pressure build-up. And according to many, it works pretty well.
The first "human" feedback from this experience is therefore very good.
Work in progress
However, we do not lose sight of the initial goal, which was to obtain a state-of-the-art result in order to have a working basis for the future. The video shot with 24 cameras makes it possible to render 8K in stereoscopy. This gives depth to the image. The sound recording with 32 capsules allows a sound of HOA3 order with a stereo headlock track. This corresponds to a surprising realism. For the moment the existing tools, " player ", or video card, or VR headphones do not allow the playback of the product as we made it.
So while our partners, such as Orange, are working on these products of the future, we are presenting this film in 6K stereo, with a sound close to that of the capture and above all with a mix that has been very carefully worked on by the sound engineers of the Innovation and Development department of France Télévisions.
And believe all those who have seen the film. It's already very good. We know, all the same, that the quality is not optimal since, for example, the depth of field is not yet great enough for our taste. So WORK IN PROGRESS with this amazing and almost educational content about what can happen on a TV set just before a newspaper.
We are moreover happy to have the opportunity to present this film again on November 22nd during the festival Médias en Seine at the France Télévisions headquarters, then on November 28th during the Digiworld Summit in Paris at the Maison de la Mutualité.
If you're tempted, we'll put you in the chair!
