Techniques of Filming and Audio Recording in 360-Degree Ambiences

Abstract

Education has always been an important factor of life, being continuously analysed, in the attempt to improve its delivery in today’s classrooms. Although much has been done to give education more interesting ways of delivery, yet there are several generic instances when educational techniques used in today’s classrooms are deemed as outdated, both by educators and their students. Subjects, which are meant to enhance the knowledge and appreciation of a culture’s heritage, can at times not be exposed to students in the most exciting way possible, so as to enhance learning and maximise understanding. A country’s heritage is the map to its history. The accumulation of its languages, including its artistic endeavours and representations, stand as a reminder of our ancestors who have toiled hard to create the story that we are nowadays striving to keep alive and further enrich through contemporary means. Technology has become a tool which stands alongside the brushes and rasps of the artists and sculptors of antiquity. Today, computers and their burgeoning peripherals have given art newer twists and further methods of expression, which can in turn augment the way students are drawn into the magical world of their country’s heritage. This project is endeavouring to capture film language and transpose it into a 360-degree film environment, which combined with the enrapturing use of spatial sound will recreate an epic moment in the fairly unknown initial stages of the Great Siege of Malta. This immersion is aimed not only to excite the young minds of students through the narrative techniques used, but further create compassion through an increased sense of empathy.