The National Theatre's New Work Department, working with the NT’s Digital Development Team, have established a Studio to look at pioneering a new form of storytelling using Virtual Reality and 360 film.
The Immersive Storytelling Studio will commission works to be experienced through these technologies.
Toby Coffey, the film's director and Head of Digital Development at the National Theatre, said, “by working with the creative talents of writers, directors and actors within the NT’s network, we can identify exactly how Virtual Reality and 360 film could be part of the way we tell stories for the stage and beyond.
"The immersive nature of this technology is incredibly powerful and the NT is acutely aware of the importance of this as an advanced form of storytelling and excited to see where our experimentation might take us.”
The initiative's first production, a verbatim documentary HOME | AAMIR about refugee life in Calais Jungle camp, premièred at the UK’s premier documentary festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016.
The Immersive Storytelling Studio emerged following the successful use of VR music video for wonder.land, the Theatre's first VR project.
The Studio will also offer a short residency and engage in a collaboration with digital content hub the National Film Board of Canada.