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Keywords: volumetric cinema, presence effect, empathy, virtual reality, audiovisual production

Dolumetric recording offers the possibility of working with recordings of real actors in interactive virtual reality film productions. Queerskins: Ark (Szilak and Tsiboulski, 2020) is one of the first narrative creations to apply and explore this technique, which is capable of enhancing the audience’s empathic responses. This paper starts with the analysis of this work, with the aim of identifying the creative procedures used in its construction. This study employs a qualitative methodology consisting of three phases. The first is a literature review, followed by an indepth analysis of the creation process of Queerskins: Ark through a series of semi-structured interviews with the authors. Finally, the virtual footage is analysed by applying our own model designed in three blocks. The research projects carried out to test the impact of VR audiovisual narrative on the viewer have always opted for perspective-taking strategies. On the other hand, the work under study experiments with the application of expressive and artistic resources for the same purpose. The results demonstrate the existence of alternative strategies to generate empathic responses in the audience.

• Francisco-Julián Martínez-Cano (1983) is doctor in Fine Art and assistant professor at the Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH), Spain
• Emilio Roselló-Tormo is doctor in Fine Art and professor at the Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH), Spain.

   

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