The Embrace of the Ocean - a case study in fulldome content-creation

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School of Arts, Design and Architecture | Bachelor's thesis
Date
2019
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Mcode
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Visual communication design
Language
en
Pages
75
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"The Embrace of the Ocean" is a fulldome (planetarium) film directed and produced by Pekka Veikkolainen and Hannes Vartiainen. The film premiered at The Finnish Science Centre Heureka in March 2019. The film comprises of live footage shot with several different camera types and animated volumetric data visualization from various sources, rendered with custom in-house software. In this thesis I break down the reasoning and decisions made during the production of "The Embrace of the Ocean", from the point of view of the film director responsible for the post-production pipeline and final image quality. Namely, how to counteract cross-reflection all the way from the planning phases of the film, such as choices regarding filming equipment, to the final stages of the post-production: the compositing and color grading of the film. I show that the problem of cross-reflection exists at The Finnish Science Centre Heureka's planetarium through a series of measurements and propose several solutions from shot planning to compositing to minimize the effect through real-world examples implemented in the production of "The Embrace of the Ocean".
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Osipow, Penni
Thesis advisor
Vyas, Rupesh
Keywords
planetarium, fulldome, dome master, documentary film, cross-reflection, hemispherical cinema, volumetric data, x-ray tomography
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