Touch-controlled panoramic
video streaming for film directing
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Description
Stageview is a hardware and software module for Stagebox, an IP camera-back device developed at BBC in 2012.
It consists of a 360 camera and a network streaming infrastructure which allows remote panoramic observation of a scene.
Film directors can use Stageview to suggest precise panning and camera movements to their operators, working together in the
same location or remotely across the internet. The camera transmitter is based on a Gumstix embedded Linux single-board computer.
The receiver will be implemented as an iPad application. The device was developed during the placement as a collaboration between
the student (Eleonora Oreggia, QMUL) and Nicholas Pinks (BBC R&D); the development of the emitter was completed and the receiver
plans were drafted.
The potential impact of this new technology has been researched and imagined: is touch going to surpass the dominant position
of the point-of-view in the construction of audiovisual narratives? Will film directing become a remote practice?
What is the value of these additional panoramic video images in terms of both fiction and journalism?
And, more generally, can this technique foster new forms of expression able to enrich, expand or transform the filmic language?
More
Stageview has been presented pubblically for the first time at Digital Futures 2012 in Aberdeen:
Eleonora Oreggia, Nicholas Pinks and Andrew McPherson. Touch-controlled panoramic video streaming for film directing.
Read
paper or see
poster.
Code
Snippets of code will be uploaded eventually. For unwrapping Golan levin's
Bloggie sketches
are a fundamental example
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