Screening the mirror forest was positive, I enjoyed seeing people experiencing the film with a VR headset, the way that I had designed it to be seen. Setting up this sort of experience is still not straight forward, putting a smartphone into a holder then strapping it to someones face is easy, but it is not elegant. It doesn’t feel like it is going to take off in a big way anytime soon, there is still this barrier to entry.

Using a desktop browser to navigate around the 360 video is an even worse experience, the controls always feel like they are in the way and it is too easy to click the wrong part of a video and break the experience, not at all immersive.

It was interesting that there were also comments that suggested that the film still worked when displayed as a traditional projection onto a screen with no interactivity. When stretch the sceptical video has a really interesting perspective on the world, it seems to need decoding to recognise very familiar objects.

I often wonder if I will have gone too far with minimalism of the visuals; will it be too simple, boring. In a film of 2 minutes I feel that there isn’t room to explore more than one idea, for me the articulation of one idea is often a limited visual palette, with sound to support that. There were a number of comments about the soundscape, where phrases such as dreamlike, and mediation, were mentioned.

I feel satisfied with the process of arriving at this piece, I enjoyed the interplay of exploration of new technique, and theoretical process. I feel that I have aim of evoking an experience of the forests of Norfolk, and the interaction of people and place.