Our second assignment for Video for New Media was to use the Ricoh Theta to transport the viewer to a new world. I brought the viewer into the captivating world of austerity fiscal policy. The film serves as an intro to and critique of austerity policy, but also plays with the concept of place as an idea by using different “scenes” (in public and in the home) to illustrate that economic policy is a theme woven into our daily lives in ways that aren’t always visible. It was filmed the weekend that Pokemon Go was released, and, naturally, the film ends with my roommates leaving the dry world of economic policy to go catch ‘em all.

vfnw-week2 from Zach Coble on Vimeo.