Premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in the New Frontiers section, and winner of the Best Immersive Narrative award at the Tribeca Festival of the same year, The Changing Same is an immersive, room-scale virtual reality experience where the participant travels through time and space to witness the connected historical experiences of racial injustice in the United States. A haunting story infused with magical realism and afrofuturism, The Changing Same examines the uninterrupted cycle of the history of racial oppression, past and present.
As part of the team at Scatter, co-producer of the project, my role in The Changing Same included building the visual identity of the project, designing the virtual look of the actors captured with volumetric video (via Depthkit), editing the trailer, as well as storyboarding and consulting on the elaborate transitions between some key scenes of the short film.
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CREDITS
Direction and Production
Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster, Yasmin Elayat
Executive Producers
Opeyemi Olukemi, Diana Barrett, Sheila Leddy
Art Direction
Rad Mora
Technical Direction
Elliott Mitchell
Depthkit Volumetric Capture Team
Alexander Porter, Cory Allen, Jillian Morrow, Tim Scaffidi
Graphics and Depthkit Design
Michele Graffieti
Original Music
serpentwithfeet, Brandon Juhans
Cast
Daniel Rios Jr., Bianca Sanchez, Carl Garrison, Hunter Thore, DeAnna S. Wright, Morgan McLeod, Robert Vail
Co-Production Studios
Rada Studio, Scatter