The Changing Same: an American Pilgrimage - Courtesy of Yasmin Elaya
ITP Alum and Co-Founder of Scatter, Yasmin Elayat, film is nominated for a #NewsandDocEmmys Award for Outstanding Interactive Media: Innovation.
This is Scatter's second Emmy nomination and it's for their most ambitious #volumetricfilm (The Changing Same: An American Pilgrimage) to date.
The Changing Same is a magical-realist immersive virtual reality experience where you travel across time and space to explore the last 400 years of America’s history of resistance to racial injustice. On the 400 year anniversary of slavery in US.
The Changing Same examines how the U.S.’s legacy of racial inequity - from slavery to Jim Crow, racial apartheid, and the criminal legal system - and the persistant fight against racial oppression continue to influence and shape our contemporary lives.
Based on real events, our experience connects the dots between the past and present to highlight the circularity of our lived experiences.
And touching on the innovation category, there are so many things that have never-been-done-before on this project. It's the first project to use Scatter's Depthkit Studio (forging new features in production), the time travel mechanic is a VR technical first, a hybrid avatar, the use of magical realism as an ethical approach to telling hard history, world building with reality capture memorializing the real historic sites where these stories took place – just to name a few.
-Written by Yasmin Elayat and edited by ITP/IMA Staff