I began editing the 360 film scenes on Eevo this weekend but was unsure of how to connect various scenes together to create the interactive element. I couldn’t find any instructions or guides online, so emailed my tutor to ask. He provided me with various guidance links from the Eevo website and also informed me that text cannot be added to videos on Eevo directly, and that they must be added on Aftereffects before being placed into Eevo. This proved to be a problem as my partner and I had assumed we could place large bodies of text on various scenes to provide the player with information on the world, a crucial aspect of our narrative. Additionally, I don’t have Aftereffects on my laptop, and waiting until Monday’s lecture seemed too tight as the deadline for the final film is on Wednesday. As such, I decided to create a Google slideshow to add the text and animate. I then screen-recorded this on Quicktime Player and cut the films, placing them in Eevo afterwards to ensure our choice option scenes would be completed. Despite this, some final scenes still need to be further edited on Aftereffects during Monday’s lecture as the informative text is necessary to the scenes to provide the player with context, and this can’t be added any other way.
Here is the link for the slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qhULiTYxNXaurGzyoRVUjVEuCl5ejNUpFAqfeEjbmOs/edit#slide=id.p
We might be a little tight for time, especially with the other projects that need to be done by Wednesday as well, but I’m confident I will get this done. The process has not gone as smoothly as planned, but things like this inevitably happen when working on projects, and I’m proud of my ability to recognize an innovative solution to the problem at hand and fix it, rather than stress and worry.
My partner and I will add the text to the filmed 360 scenes on Monday, and then all that needs to be done is to connect the interactive elements on Eevo with the newly edited scenes. In the meantime, I will work to connect the rest of the scenes and ensure the interactive element is functioning.