BIRTHUAL REALITY

TitleBIRTHUAL REALITY
BrandGJENSIDIGE INSURANCE
Product/ServiceGJENSIDIGE CHILD INSURANCE
Category D03. 360° & VR Film
Entrant FLB EUROPA Stockholm, SWEDEN
Idea Creation FLB EUROPA Stockholm, SWEDEN
PR FLB EUROPA Stockholm, SWEDEN
Production GOOD TIMES STUDIO STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
Credits
Name Company Position
Lina Sennerdal Kolacz Gjensidige Insurance Creative Director
Johanna Gustafsson Gjensidige Insurance Senior Copywriter
Linnéa Hagström FLB Europa Strategic Project Manager
Siri von Zeipel Vincent FLB Europa Strategic Project Manager
Linnea Nordström FLB Europa PR-specialist
Björn Lundevall FLB Europa Creative Director
Björn Lundvall FLB Europa PR-specialist
Marcus Hellman Good Times Studio
Joakim Näzell Good Times Studio
Niclas Amin Good Times Studio
Viktor Skogqvist Good Times Studio

Write a short summary of what happens in the film

Birthual Reality is a birth-preparatory film in VR and gives expectant parents a new way to prepare for childbirth. Filming a real authentic childbirth in 360 degrees made it possible to create a feeling of being in the room during an actual delivery – allowing expectant parents to experience everything at close hand before it's time for their own baby to enter the world. The viewer gets to follow the expectant parents along for the whole experience. They see how the expectant parents enter the delivery room, get examined and use pain relief. And of course when the baby arrives, when the umbilical cord is cut and when the placenta is expelled. No childbirth is the same but with this VR experience the viewer get an idea of the process itself as it conveys the physical and emotional struggle of childbirth, along with the joy of receiving a new baby.

Cultural/Context information for the jury

Most Swedes who has undergone a pregnancy would agree that some parts of the material used by maternity clinics to prepare expectant parents have long passed their best before date; not factually, but stuffed dolls and stencils are difficult to engage with at an emotional level. Here we identified a need, can we help expectant parents to prepare for childbirth and create a more emotional tool for maternity care?