To shape, polish and reinforce the script for our virtual reality film we went to NL Film to discuss ideas with their creative producer Kaja Wolffers. Located at the lovely area of the Museumplein, we grabbed a coffee and talked about it in a chilled setting.
As the production company of successful Dutch series as Penoza, Spangas, Bluf and many more, NL Film has established itself quite successful in the television business. Soon to be airing new project called Project Orpheus, which is the base of our project, was the main subject of our meeting. During this meeting we talked about different elements of the series for us to put into the VR film to create a fitting trans-media story. We discussed overall themes, personages of the series, musical composition and the design and feel of the sets to recreate the same character of the series within our VR experience.
Moodboards
To do so we brought moodboards, showing the look and feel of the scenes we are having in mind, and mixed them with the vision of Kaja on the series that he is producing. The main challenge would be to make our VR experience both a self-explaining work for those not familiar with the series and an interesting extension for those who have watched the series. This lead to the insight to transform aspects of the series into little clues, or Easter eggs, to be put into the VR experience to be found by the attentive viewer of the series. Also we were looking for an actor of the series to act in our film, again making both sense for those who watch the series and whose presence wouldn’t distract the viewer. After brainstorming we managed to find a solution and we now have the appropriate actor for our production. The second part of the meeting consisted of the production values of the project. This includes hiring actors from the series, set-locations in Hilversum and different personas of the production team such as art-director, location manager etc.
The end of the meeting resulted in virtually a finalised script, choice of actors, usable elements of the series for our project and a whole new range insight.