PIXAR Animation Studios

Entering the world of the impossible

“VR The Champions” is the title of British rock band Queen first concert film in VR. Director and DoP Jannicke Mikkelsen takes you on a journey through inventing new-tech to behind the scenes of working with the legendary rock stars. The talk details the project workflow, equipment, live-action stereography through to post-production. Mikkelsen’s talk challenges current VR misconceptions and explores the future of VR entertainment to the masses.

Disney Animation Studios

Entering the world of the impossible

“VR The Champions” is the title of British rock band Queen first concert film in VR. Director and DoP Jannicke Mikkelsen takes you on a journey through inventing new-tech to behind the scenes of working with the legendary rock stars. The talk details the project workflow, equipment, live-action stereography through to post-production. Mikkelsen’s talk challenges current VR misconceptions and explores the future of VR entertainment to the masses.

A Miracle and Eagle Rock Films production

Project Instigator: Brian May

VR Director and 360 Stereographer: Jannicke Mikkelsen   

Producer: Jeremy Azis

Run time: 00:15:00

Vr The Champions is the title of QUEEN + Adam Lambert’s first live-concert film in virtual reality.

This unique VR film gives the viewer a concert experience like no other. The film offers everything from front row access to the ultimate on-stage experience together with the band. Captured in flying 3D-360 the viewer is taken on a unforgettable journey hovering above the audience and flying along side Queen guitarist Brian May, Queen drummer Roger Taylor, and lead singer Adam Lambert, performing on the grand stage of Barcelona’s Palau St. Jordi. Offering the complete experience of heightened reality, this film is captured in 3D and delivered with ambisonic audio to make this concert even more virtually real than you could ever imagine.  

Featured tracks:

Radio Ga Ga

We Will Rock You

We Are The Champions

Dokfilm - The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival

Norske Jannicke Mikkelsen er regissør og fotograf bak filmen "VR The Champions". Ho tek oss me på ei reise frå å utvikle ny teknologi til korleis det var bak kulissane med dei legendariske rockestjernene. Foredraget tek for seg arbeidsprosessen, utstyr, levende stereografi og postproduksjon. Mikkelsen utfordrar aktuelle mistydingar innan VR og utforskar framtida til dette formatet.

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Director and DoP Jannicke Mikkelsen takes you on a journey through inventing new-tech to behind the scenes of working with the legendary rock stars. The talk details the project workflow, equipment, live-action stereography through to post-production. Mikkelsen’s talk challenges current VR misconceptions and explores the future of VR entertainment to the masses.

Headspin Productions

VR Cinematographer: Jannicke Mikkelsen

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Run time: 00:05:00

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Virtual Reality film production documenting building and engineering the Norwegian electrical grid. 

Job required helicopter camera operating and safe camera rigging at heights. Self operating cinematographer.

London Stereoscopic Company

VR Director: Dr. Brian May

3D Editor: Denis Pellerin
VR Technical Director: Jannicke Mikkelsen

Created for the astrophysics festival STARMUS "A Tribute To Stephen Hawking"

Development of adroid viewing app. 

Screening for 1000 audience attendants on the Owl VR viewer.

&Action, (2016)

Jannicke Mikkelsen is a Cinematographer with extensive experience in 3D and 360 degree filming. Since graduating from the prestigious National Film and Television School in England, Jannicke has worked for Queen guitarist, Dr. Brian May, and Wildlife documentary presenter, Sir. David Attenborough in 2015. Blending traditional cinematography with 3D and virtual reality 360, Jannicke is at the cutting edge of entertainment exploration.

Presentations: 360° Video & Traditional Cinematography | Hands-On 360° Video

Atlantic Productions

VR Additional Post Production, including additional shoot, 360 stitching and mastering.

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Run Time: 00:20:00

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In this unique and immersive twenty minute virtual reality preview experience, join David Attenborough as he explores the Great Barrier Reef aboard the Triton, a state of the art submersible. Sit next to David and reef expert Professor Justin Marshall as they descend beneath the waves to explore a pristine corner of this wonder of the natural world. Joined by a team of specialist divers and reef experts, you will come face to face with the beautiful fish, incredible corals and sleek reef sharks that call this underwater paradise home.

See the full experience at the Natural History Museum, London | Australian Museum, Sydney |  Trondheim Science Centre, Norway

Atlantic Productions

VR Director: Jannicke Mikkelsen

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Run time: 00:15:00

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Virtual reality natural history documentary of migrating sharks in the Pacific.

Atlantic Productions

VR Director: David Lee
VR Cinematographer: Jannicke Mikkelsen

Run time: 00:05:00
 

Promotional film for History Channel.

Atlantis Found attempts to make history as adventurer-geologist Dr. Martin Pepper sets out to prove his theory that the true Atlantis existed on the Greek island of Santorini, and was destroyed in the biggest volcanic eruption in human history.

Atlantic Productions

Bring Your Lessons To Life

Imagine exploring coral reefs or the surface of Mars in an afternoon. With Expeditions, teachers can take students on immersive, virtual journeys.

3D Creative Summit, (2014)

Jannicke is a cinematographer and 3D entrepreneur with 7 years of experience as a stereographer. She started exploring 3D filmmaking in 2007 and teamed up with Stereotec technologies GmbH in 2009 where she worked in an award winning team receiving the European international 3D society award for best live-action feature film 2012 and 2013.

Her entrepreneurial project “SlateMate3D” is a stereoscopic database and an onset tool to keep 3D continuity. She developed the computer program to aid her team, the cinematographer, and additional units dealing with stereoscopic data. The program was further developed to accommodate multiple stereo rigs running simultaneously for the Paramount Pictures feature film “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters”(2013)

Paramount Pictures

Film Director and Writer: Tommy Wirkola

Hansel & Gretel are bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. As the fabled Blood Moon approaches, the siblings encounter a new form of evil that might hold a secret to their past.

Stereographer: Jannicke Mikkelsen

Rat Pack Filmproduktion GmbH

Director: Christian Ditter
Producer: Christian Becker

Viking village Flake's chief Halvar orders clever, tiny son Wickie to rob a knights convoy. The warriors have to take over but fail to see Wicki being abducted with a cargo of Eskimo slaves, who also carry a mysterious manuscript on the eternal ice palace containing the Norse gods' treasure. Wickie escapes, and the thief who refuses to help him comes along as stowaway. Wickie works out the manuscript, but before the men can sail, they are drugged and Halvar is abducted. Chieftaincy now falls by customary law to Wickie, who needs to grow on the job in several senses.

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Stereographer: Jannicke Mikkelsen