When “Sonolumin” won a prestigious international Janus award as best fulldome short film at the 2019 Jena Festival in Germany, the earth didn’t shake in Middle Georgia.
Maybe it should have.
The Jena Festival win was indeed prestigious at the world’s oldest showcase for fulldome work and “Sonolumin” was a film commissioned by Macon’s own Museum of Arts and Sciences and created by the museum’s friend and partner, Diana Reichenbach of the Savannah College of Art and Design.
The win was significant but only the tip of the iceberg of all the museum is doing to advance fulldome filmmaking and immersive media. Much of the work and its recognition is unknown to the local public.
First though, what do fulldome film and immersive media mean?
Basically, immersive media plunges viewers as much as possible into the sight, sound and potentially other sensory experiences of a work. It does so via a fulldome theater, a virtual reality headset or related means. In traditional film or television, the audience sees another world through a window. In immersive technologies, they step through.
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