CKL Stage CON-TOUR:BACKSTAGE’ combined with virtual reality to quench the thirst for live performances in the era of COVID-19

2020 CKL Stage special performance CONTOUR:BACK STAGE poster (provided by The Korea Creative Content Agency)

The Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism (Minister Yang-woo Park) and The Korea Creative Content Agency (Director Young-jun Kim hereinafter CCA) will show new ontact performance content on 30th and 31st to quench the thirst for performances due to COVID-19.

Specially since its opening in December 2015 CCA’s ‘CKS Stage’. Which has established itself as a live house specializing in pop music has been in charge of planning and production. It is expected to show a lively performance scene by using 360-degree camera shooting technique.

CCA’s CKS Stage which celebrates its 5th anniversary on the 29th conducted a program called ‘Backstage Tour’ which allows audiences to experience the backstage of the concert hall until last year. This year in order to comfort and communicate closer to the audience who cannot directly visit the concert hall due to COVID-19 the ontact content ‘Contour’ program has been prepared.

‘CON-TOUR’ is a compound of ‘concert’ and ‘tour’. It lively delivers the feeling of doing a backstage tour in person including the appearance of the waiting room before the performance and the preparation process for rehearsals that the audience could not see even when they were in the performance hall.

For the performance three idol team including ▲NCT DREAM which were selected as ‘Artist 21 under the age of 21’ announced by Billboard of the United States for their global popularity ▲ ELRIS composed of members who have verified their skills and star quality through the program such as ‘K-POP Star’ ‘Mixnine’ and ‘Produce 48’ and ▲ Pentagon which are recording remarkable growth with ‘DAISY’ selected as the 2020 K-POP Song of the year appears.

This content will be released through the official YouTube channels of the three teams and KOCCA MUSIC the CCA music YouTube channel for both days on the 30th and 31st with the intent to show the backstory of the performance unaffected. An episode video showing the performance preparations of the three teams shot through a 360-degree camera a performance video with 3D-EX stereoscopic sound technology and a 2D making video will be released sequentially.

In particular the virtual reality (VR) introduced in CON-TOUR has a wider sight than the existing video by shooting with a 360-degree dedicated camera so it has a function that allows to view the part you want to see directly by moving a mobile device. Even without special device 3D stereoscopic sound gives you a vivid sense of reality like the musician sings right next to you by using usual earphones.

For the more information on ‘CON-TOUR’ you can check CKL stage website (venture.ckl.or.kr/stage/main.do) and official SNS account (Twitter Instagram. TikTok / @kocca_backstage).

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