We have just completed a great Virtual Tour for Hazelwick School, Crawley.
The project brief
Hazelwick School approached us and had a very clear brief in mind. They required 14 tours of their site done in a high quality way with an interactive floor plan/map plus custom designed skin buttons and intro text. No problem we said, and turned up a few weeks later to shoot the 14 locations.
On location
A day in January at the very beginning of the new year term was identified as the shoot date, and it was a very cold and crisp one at that! Luckily the snow had managed to hold off for the day and allowed for an on time arrival despite the hazardous M4!
Martin, our contact, had been very pro-active and had the 14 locations all set out, with a timetable for the days shoots down on paper. Each tour location takes around 5 minutes to shoot and as we had the whole day ahead of us a relaxing pace (mostly!) was in order. Each location was scouted out and the perfect position for the camera & tripod was sought before shooting would take place. After around 5 hours on site, the work was done.
Skin design
One of the requirements of this project was an interactive map as the form of navigation. Martin at Hazelwick School provided a PDF map, which we then altered with a simple border and crest.
All the buttons and images you see on the tour skin were custom designed with colours from the original school site. A simple map pin was designed to fit in with the feel of the skin. We also designed a great looking intro box for the start of the tour with a subtle crest in the background, nice touch!
The end result
You can see the 360 virtual tour by clicking here. Hazelwick School were pleased with the end result, here’s what Martin Klin had to say:
“I think that 360 virtual tours have done a fantastic job. The tours are of high quality, and the skin looks superb and fits very well within our site. The team worked incredibly hard to meet our requirements, and we particularly like the interactive map that they included as part of the design. We hope to work with them again in the summer to produce several more locations . Well done 360virtualtours for doing such a great job!”
Martin Klin (Website Developer, Hazelwick School)
It was a great project and we are very pleased with how it has turned out. So many educational institutes are recognising the need to show off their locations in the best way possible, and there really is no better way than an interactive virtual tour!
