Justin Lin made a monster movie where YOU are the camera and nowhere is safe.
The first live-action Spotlight Story, HELP, brings cinema-quality filmmaking to the world of 360 storytelling. Filmed with a groundbreaking and custom-built camera array system, HELP drops the audience into the middle of downtown Los Angeles where an unexpected meteor shower has left a deep scar on the streets of Chinatown. What happens next creates panic in the streets and sends a young woman scrambling to escape.
Direction
Justin Lin somehow directs YOUR eyeballs in 360 chaos
Practical Effects
Custom camera rig that probably broke constantly
Visual Effects
Seamless creature integration in spherical video
Director
Justin Lin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Google's Spotlight Stories team built a proprietary 360 camera array specifically for this, then basically abandoned the platform.
This was Google's attempt to make 'VR cinema' mainstream in 2014—spoiler: it didn't work, but it predicted TikTok's immersive storytelling by years.
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