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\u201cJusqu\u2019ici,\u201d designed for people aged 5 to 105, is an interactive experience that gives participants the choice. You can lose your way for six minutes or forever. You can run around or stay put. You can access it through a web browser, but also on your phone or using the Oculus Rift virtual reality helmet. This simple walk in the woods becomes whatever you turn it into: a game, a lullaby, an escape, a growing awareness of what has remained hidden right in front of you or within you, until now.<\/p>\n

Vincent Morisset has been passionately interested in ornithology since childhood. He spent a lot of time walking in the woods and watching birds. In accordance with his interest in how we look at our surroundings, he wanted to juxtapose the real and virtual in an interactive experience called \u201cJusqu\u2019ici<\/a>\u201d (\u201cUntil now\u201d). \u201cThe idea was to create a bridge between video games and film,\u201d says the film director. \u201cI asked myself how I could recreate our relationship with space in an interactive experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interaction is what the director is avidly interested in. \u201cI\u2019m particularly interested in creating a bridge between the language of film and interactive mechanisms,\u201d he adds. To focus on this subject, he created his own studio in 2009, AATOAA<\/a>, which has worked with Arcade Fire on several occasions.<\/p>\n

\"jusquicinoiretblanc\"<\/a>\u201cJusqu\u2019ici\u201d is a stroll in the junction between reality and virtuality that combines a pathway filmed in 360 degrees, animation, interactivity, and sets drawn in ink. To create this experience, Vincent called on his team made up of \u00c9douard Lanct\u00f4t-Benoit (development), Caroline Robert (visuals), and Philippe Lambert (sound and music).<\/p>\n

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Vincent Morisset by Caroline Robert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the shoots, the team initially set up six GoPro mini-cameras on a boom and shot footage in the Eastern Townships, Mauricie, the Laurentians, and Mount Royal in Montreal. Since this process doesn\u2019t allow you to hide the person who\u2019s filming, the studio decided to make Vincent the main character, dressed in a white suit. The other members of the team play characters dressed in black that the player meets during the course of his travels. \u201cSince we had to shoot outdoors and only in cloudy weather conditions, only a small team could be ready to jump into the car at any time with all the equipment and costumes and go for a shoot,\u201d points out the director. \u201cIt was an adventure every single time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Graphic designer Caroline Robert then created the visual elements and the animated character before superimposing them onto the live action footage. During the experience, the character moves from the real black-and-white world to a dream world where trees are made of watercolours and the path is made of chalk.<\/p>\n

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\"jusquici4\"<\/a>\u201cJusqu\u2019ici\u201d is a comprehensive experience. It is also a musical work that was challenging to create. \u201cThe shoot was epic. We wanted natural sounds, but it was impossible not to capture the sound of an airplane, a car, agricultural machinery or even mosquitoes,\u201d says Philippe Lambert.<\/p>\n

As a first-person narrative, \u201cJusqu\u2019ici\u201d is truly a subjective experience.<\/p>\n

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