Mixed Reality | Capturing The Essence of A Place

Neko Chen
2 min readApr 12, 2024

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psychogeography

“The study of specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals”

— — Guy Debord (1958)

Shooting with Insta 360 EVO Camera

This is my first time using the Insta 360 Camera.

What I like most about Insta is the small size of the camera and the options it gives you when shooting. I can keep it open and grab a new perspective with the shot, especially when rotating in the “tiny planet” angle.

“Tiny Planet” angle

Introduction of the story

My project is based on a real event. Many people may have memories of forgetting their home keys. My project is based on a real event. I’m sure many of you have memories of forgetting your house keys.

When I first moved into my new home in Sydney, I met up with a friend to go out with her and we were looking forward to going to the beautiful beach, but as we reached the gates of our neighbourhood, we suddenly realized that both of us had forgotten our keys. We tried to go home to get them but realized that we couldn’t get in either.

When we were lost, we met a bear, and during our conversation with the bear, we were surprised to get the key from the bear.

This is designed like a breakout in a game, and the bears are the NPCs in the game, when we managed to get out of the gate, we levelled up!

* PLEASE USE 4K QUALITY.

Difficulties in filming

During filming, I found that the Insta 360 doesn’t have many pixels, so I needed to shoot in a more well-lit environment or else we’d create a lot of noise in the movie.

In addition, the anti-shake is also very important point, during the shooting process, you also need to control the image without being shaky.

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Neko Chen
Neko Chen

Written by Neko Chen

Photographer/Filmmaker based in Sydney/Shanghai

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