🎓 FULL PRODUCTION TUTORIAL

📁 PHASE 1: PRE-PRODUCTION

✅ 1. Story & Script Development

• Create 3-part structure:
  1. Earthquake Scene
  2. Tsunami Wave Impact
  3. Aftermath, Survivors, and Rebuilding

✅ Tools:

• Use Google Docs or Notion to draft the script.
• Divide script into Voiceover + Visual actions for each scene.

✅ 2. Storyboarding & Scene Planning

• Design a 7-scene storyboard (can be sketched or digital):
  • Use Storyboarder (free) or PowerPoint.
  • Each scene should include:
    • Key visual focus (e.g. boat on rooftop)
    • Ambient sound description
    • Timing estimate (e.g. 30–45 sec per scene)

✅ 3. Asset Planning & Collection

• List all assets:
  • Buildings (Aceh houses, masjid)
  • Boat
  • Rubble, debris
  • Tsunami water FX
  • People / animations

✅ Sources:

• Quixel Megascans (free with UE5)
• Sketchfab / TurboSquid / CGTrader for boats/vehicles
• Blender to customize assets

🛠️ PHASE 2: PRODUCTION (UNREAL ENGINE 5)

✅ 4. Project Setup

• Launch Unreal Engine 5
• Create new project:
  • Type: Blank or First-Person
  • Add Starter Content
  • Enable plugins:
    • Panoramic Capture
    • Niagara FX
    • OpenXR / Oculus plugin (for testing in VR)

✅ Folder Structure:

• Assets/Environment
• Assets/Characters
• Scenes/Earthquake
• Scenes/Tsunami
• Audio/Voiceovers
• Audio/SFX

✅ 5. Build Your 3D World

🌇 Scene 1: Earthquake

• Use landscape tool to sculpt Aceh terrain.
• Add buildings, mosque, streets.
• Animate building collapse using Chaos Physics.
• Add debris/dust FX using Niagara.

🌊 Scene 2: Tsunami Wave

• Import ocean material or use Fluid plugin / Niagara.
• Animate large-scale water movement.
• Add boats flipping, people climbing to rooftops.
• Use physics on light objects for realism.

🕌 Scene 3: Aftermath

• Show a standing mosque in the middle of ruin.
• Place stranded boat on rooftop.
• Add survivor characters, damaged environment.
• Use decals for mud, dirt, broken walls.

✅ 6. Lighting & Cinematics

• Use Directional Light + Sky Light for each scene.
• Add Volumetric Fog to create emotion (especially in aftermath scene).
• Control lighting per scene:
  • Bright for prayer scenes
  • Grey/dark for tsunami
• Use CineCameraActor to position for emotional framing (even in 360°)

✅ 7. 360° Camera Setup

Option A: Unreal Marketplace Plugin

• Install: 360 Capture Plugin
• Place PanoramicCaptureActor in center of each scene

Option B: DIY Cubemap Method

• Place 6 SceneCapture2D actors (front, back, left, right, top, bottom)
• Render cubemaps
• Stitch using ffmpeg or Adobe After Effects

Render Settings:

• Resolution: 4096 x 2048
• FPS: 30 or 60
• Format: .mp4 / .mov

✅ 8. Voiceover & Audio

• Record voiceovers:
  • One version in Bahasa Malaysia
  • One in English
• Tools: Audacity, Adobe Audition
• Import WAVs into UE5.
• Use Attenuation & Spatialization settings for ambient audio.
• Add 360 ambisonic background audio:
  • Ocean sounds
  • People crying, praying
  • Helicopter flying above

🧪 PHASE 3: TESTING & OUTPUT

✅ 9. Testing

• Test in-editor using VR Preview
• If testing on device:
  • Enable Oculus/SteamVR
  • Package for Windows + OpenXR

✅ 10. Exporting Final Video

• Use Render Movie Queue to render each 360 scene
• Combine scenes in Adobe Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve
• Add:
  • Crossfades between scenes
  • Text overlays (e.g. “26 Disember 2004”)
  • Subtitle tracks (BM + EN)
• Export:
  • Equirectangular 360 (MP4) – for YouTube VR
  • EXE / APK build – for Oculus / Android VR viewers

📤 PHASE 4: DISTRIBUTION

✅ 11. Publish to Platforms

📣 PHASE 5: MARKETING & DOCUMENTATION

✅ 12. Poster, Trailer & Pitch Kit

• Create:
  • Short 30–60 sec 360° trailer
  • Project poster
  • One-pager PDF for media and funders
• Submit to:
  • Film festivals (Venice Immersive, IDFA)
  • Educational platforms
  • Malaysian grants (FINAS, MyCreative, Hasanah)

🗂️ BONUS: FOLDER DELIVERY STRUCTURE (FOR CLIENT / MUSEUM)

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/Final_Project_BandaAcehVR
│
├── Executable_VR/
│   ├── WindowsVR.exe
│   └── Oculus.apk
│
├── 360_Video/
│   ├── BandaAcehVR_BM.mp4
│   ├── BandaAcehVR_EN.mp4
│
├── Voiceover/
│   ├── VO_BM.wav
│   └── VO_EN.wav
│
├── Poster_&_Trailer/
│   ├── Poster_HD.jpg
│   └── Trailer_360.mp4
│
├── Documentation/
│   ├── Script_BM_EN.pdf
│   ├── Budget.xlsx
│   └── Storyboard.pdf