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What if I could present you a story that you would remember with your entire body and not just with your mind? 如果我给你讲一个故事, 一个你会用整个身体, 而不仅仅是在脑海中记住的故事,怎么样？
What if:如果…怎么办?
My whole life as a journalist , I've really been compelled to try to make stories that can make a difference and maybe inspire people to care. 我是一个记者,我一直在努力 去写一些故事,可以做出一些改变, 也许可以激发人们的同情心。
journalist:n.新闻工作者;报人;记日志者; compelled:v.强迫;迫使;使必须;引起(反应);(compel的过去分词和过去式) make a difference:有影响,有关系; inspire:v.激发;鼓舞;启示;产生;使生灵感;
I've worked in print. I've worked in documentary. 我在报社工作过,我制作过纪录片。
I've worked in broadcast . 也曾在广播公司供职。
broadcast:v.广播; n.广播节目; adj.[无线]播音的;
But it really wasn't until I got involved with virtual reality that I started seeing these really intense , authentic reactions from people that really blew my mind. 但是,当我接触到虚拟现实的时候, 我才真正开始看到人们那些强烈的 真实的反应, 从根本上改变了我的看法。
involved:adj.有关的; v.涉及; (involve的过去式和过去分词) virtual reality:n.(计算机创造的)虚拟现实; intense:adj.强烈的;紧张的;非常的;热情的; authentic:adj.真正的,真实的;可信的; reactions:n.反应;回应;抗拒;生理反应;副作用(reaction的复数)
So the deal is that with VR, virtual reality, 那么在虚拟现实中,
I can put you on scene in the middle of the story. 我可以把你放在一个故事的 某个场景中。
By putting on these goggles that track wherever you look, you get this whole-body sensation , like you're actually, like, there. 戴上追踪你视野的眼镜, 你的全身感官都会有种 身临其境的感觉。
goggles:n.护目镜;风镜;游泳镜;v.瞪大眼睛看;(goggle的第三人称单数和复数) track:n.小道;足迹;车辙;轨道;v.追踪;跟踪; sensation:n.感觉;轰动;感动;
So five years ago was about when I really began to push the envelope with using virtual reality and journalism together. 就在五年前,我真正开始 把虚拟现实和记者的工作结合起来。
envelope:n.信封,封皮;包膜;[天]包层;包迹; journalism:n.新闻业,新闻工作;报章杂志;
And I wanted to do a piece about hunger. 我想做一个关于饥饿的作品。
Families in America are going hungry, food banks are overwhelmed , and they're often running out of food. 美国的家庭正在遭受饥饿,食品供给处人满为患, 人们经常吃不饱饭。
overwhelmed:v.受打击,压倒;淹没;(overwhelm的过去分词和过去式)
Now, I knew I couldn't make people feel hungry, but maybe I could figure out a way to get them to feel something physical . 我知道我不能让人们真正感受到饥饿, 但也许我可以找到一个方法,让他们在生理上感受到些什么。
physical:adj.[物]物理的;身体的;物质的;符合自然法则的;n.体格检查;
So -- again, this is five years ago -- so doing journalism and virtual reality together was considered a worse-than-half-baked idea, and I had no funding . 于是——重申一下,这是五年前—— 把记者的工作和虚拟现实结合在一起 是一个全新的想法,前途未卜, 而且我没有任何基金支持。
funding:n.基金;资金;提供资金;v.为…提供资金;拨款给;(fund的现在分词)
Believe me, I had a lot of colleagues laughing at me. 相信我,有很多同事都嘲笑我。
colleagues:n.同事;同行(colleague的复数);
And I did, though, have a really great intern , a woman named Michaela Kobsa-Mark. 但是,我有一个很好的实习生, 她叫米歇尔马克。
intern:n.实习医生; v.(战争期间或由于政治原因未经审讯)拘留;
And together we went out to food banks and started recording audio and photographs. 我们一起去了食品供给处, 开始进行录音和拍照。
audio:adj.声音的;录音的;
Until one day she came back to my office and she was bawling , she was just crying. 直到有一天,她来到我的办公室, 痛哭不止,泪流满面。
bawling:v.大喊;怒吼;号哭;(bawl的现在分词)
She had been on scene at a long line, where the woman running the line was feeling extremely overwhelmed, and she was screaming, "There's too many people! 她看到了一条排队领取事物的长队, 那里有一个管理队伍的女人情绪崩溃了, 她在尖叫,”人太多了！
extremely:adv.非常,极其;极端地;
There's too many people!" 人太多了！”
And this man with diabetes doesn't get food in time, his blood sugar drops too low, and he collapses into a coma . 然后有一个得了糖尿病的男人没有及时得到食物, 他的血糖降得太低了,昏了过去。
diabetes:n.糖尿病;多尿症; blood sugar:n.血糖; collapses:v.(突然)倒塌,坍塌;昏倒;坐下;(collapse的第三人称单数) coma:n.[医]昏迷;[天]彗形像差;
As soon as I heard that audio, 当我听到那个录音的时候,
As soon as:一…就;
I knew that this would be the kind of evocative piece that could really describe what was going on at food banks. 我知道这就是那种 能够真正反应食品供给处的情况,并引起感情共鸣的作品。
evocative:adj.唤起的;唤出的; describe:v.描述;形容;把…称为;画出…图形;
So here's the real line. You can see how long it was, right? 这是现实中的队伍,你可以看见它有多长,对吧？
And again, as I said , we didn't have very much funding, so I had to reproduce it with virtual humans that were donated , and people begged and borrowed favors to help me create the models and make things as accurate as we could. 重申一下,我们没有什么基金资助, 所以我想要重现这些场景,就必须找到一些志愿者, 请求他们帮忙制造出各种模型, 把场景做得尽可能真实。
as I said:正如我所说的 reproduce:v.繁殖;复制;再现;生育; donated:v.捐赠,赠送;献(血);捐献(器官);(donate的过去分词和过去式) accurate:adj.精确的;
And then we tried to convey what happened that day with as much as accuracy as is possible. 之后我们试着尽量真实地 展现出那天到底发生了什么。
convey:vt.传达;运输;让与; accuracy:n.[数]精确度,准确性;
(Video) Voice: There's too many people! There's too many people! （视频）声音:有太多人了！有太多人了！
Voice: OK, he's having a seizure . 声音:看起来他的癫痫发作了。
seizure:n.没收;夺取;捕获;(疾病的)突然发作;
Voice: We need an ambulance . 声音:我们需要一辆救护车。
ambulance:n.救护车;
Nonny de la Pe?a: So the man on the right, for him, he's walking around the body. 诺尼德拉皮娜（NP）:画面右边的那个男人, 他正在那个身体旁边走动。
For him, he's in the room with that body. 对于他来说,他和那个身体同在一个房间里。
Like, that guy is at his feet. 好像那个倒下的男人就在他的脚旁。
And even though, through his peripheral vision , he can see that he's in this lab space, he should be able to see that he's not actually on the street, but he feels like he's there with those people. 即使如此,通过外围的视角, 他仍然可以看见他是在这个实验室里, 他应该能看见自己并不是真正在街上, 但他会感觉他正和那些人一起经历这一切。
peripheral:adj.外围的;次要的;(神经)末梢区域的;n.外部设备; vision:n.视力;美景;幻象;想象力;v.想象;显现;梦见;
He's very cautious not to step on this guy who isn't really there, right? 他小心地避免踩到那个人身上, 而那个人其实并不存在,对吧？
cautious:adj.谨慎的;十分小心的;
So that piece ended up going to Sundance in 2012, a kind of amazing thing, and it was the first virtual reality film ever, basically . 那个作品在2012年进入了圣丹斯系列, 很了不起,这几乎是有史以来第一部 虚拟现实作品。
basically:adv.主要地,基本上;
And when we went, I was really terrified. 当我们去那里的时候,我非常忐忑。
I didn't really know how people were going to react and what was going to happen. 我真的不知道人们的反应会是什么, 会有什么样的效果。
And we showed up with this duct-taped pair of goggles. 我们带着这些带录像管的眼镜到场。
(Video) Oh, you're crying. You're crying. Gina, you're crying. （视频）哦,你在哭,你在哭,吉娜,你在哭。
So you can hear the surprise in my voice, right? NP:你们可以听到我声音里透出的惊讶,对吧？
And this kind of reaction ended up being the kind of reaction we saw over and over and over: people down on the ground trying to comfort the seizure victim , trying to whisper something into his ear or in some way help, even though they couldn't. 这就是我们所看到的观众的反应, 一次又一次同样的反应: 人们跪在地上试图安慰病情发作的患者, 试图在他耳边低语, 或者提供一些帮助,即使他们完全帮不上。
over and over:反复;再三; victim:n.受害人;牺牲品;牺牲者; whisper:v.耳语;低语;私语;小声说;n.耳语(声);低语(声);私语(声);轻柔的声音;
And I had a lot of people come out of that piece saying, "Oh my God, I was so frustrated . I couldn't help the guy," 很多人从这个作品中走出来后都说, “哦,天哪,我太沮丧了,我帮不了那个人。”
frustrated:adj.失意的,挫败的;泄气的;v.挫败;阻挠;(frustrate的过去式和过去分词)
and take that back into their lives. 并把这种感受带回到他们自己的生活中。
So after this piece was made, the dean of the cinema school at USC, the University of Southern California, brought in the head of the World Economic Forum to try "Hunger," 在这个作品完成之后, 南加利福尼亚大学的电影系的院长, 带来了世界经济论坛主席,来观看这部“饥饿”,
dean:n.院长;系主任;教务长;主持牧师; Economic:adj.经济的,经济上的;经济学的; Forum:n.论坛,讨论会;法庭;公开讨论的广场;
and he took off the goggles, and he commissioned a piece about Syria on the spot . 他摘下了眼镜, 随后立即批准了一部关于当时叙利亚的片子。
commissioned:adj.受委任的;v.正式委托;任命…为军官;(commission的过去式和过去分词) Syria:n.叙利亚共和国; on the spot:adj.现场的;
And I really wanted to do something about Syrian refugee kids, because children have been the worst affected by the Syrian civil war. 我真的想为这些叙利亚的难民孩子们做些什么, 因为儿童是受到叙利亚的内战影响最严重的。
Syrian:adj.叙利亚的;叙利亚人的;叙利亚语的;n.叙利亚人;叙利亚语; refugee:n.难民;避难者;逃亡者;v.避难;adj.避难的; civil:adj.公民的;民间的;文职的;有礼貌的;根据民法的;
I sent a team to the border of Iraq to record material at refugee camps, basically an area I wouldn't send a team now, as that's where ISIS is really operating. 我派了一个团队去伊拉克边境上的难民营录制材料, 但目前因为ISIS正在控制那个地区, 我无法再往那里派遣团队了。
And then we also recreated a street scene in which a young girl is singing and a bomb goes off. 随后我们还重建了一个街景, 是一个年轻的女孩在唱歌,然后一个炸爆炸了。
recreated:v.再现;再创造;(recreate的过去分词和过去式)
Now, when you're in the middle of that scene and you hear those sounds, and you see the injured around you, it's an incredibly scary and real feeling. 现在,当你在那个场景中央, 听到那些声音, 还看到那些受伤的人就在你的身边, 你会有一种难以置信的可怕而又真实的感受。
injured:adj.受伤的:委屈的: v.伤害,使受伤: n.伤员; incredibly:adv.难以置信地;非常地;
I've had individuals who have been involved in real bombings tell me that it evokes the same kind of fear. 我认识一些经历过真正的炸弹爆炸的人,他们告诉我
individuals:n.[经]个人;[生物]个体(individual的复数); bombings:n.[军]轰炸,[军]投弹;v.轰击;引爆炸弹(bomb的ing形式); evokes:vt.引起,唤起;博得;
[The civil war in Syria may seem far away] 【在你亲身体验之前】
[until you experience it yourself.] 【叙利亚内战也许显得很遥远。】
(Girl singing) （女孩的歌声）
(Explosion) （爆炸）
[Project Syria] 【叙利亚项目】
[A virtual reality experience] 【一个虚拟现实的体验】
NP: We were then invited to take the piece to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. NP:我们被邀请带着这个作品 去伦敦的维多利亚和阿尔伯塔博物馆。
And it wasn't advertised . 没有进行任何宣传。
advertised:v.做广告;登广告;公布,征聘;展现,宣传(advertise的过去分词和过去式)
And we were put in this tapestry room. 我们被安排在这间织锦室。
tapestry:n.织锦;挂毯;绣帷;vt.用挂毯装饰;
There was no press about it, so anybody who happened to walk into the museum to visit it that day would see us with these crazy lights. 没有关于这件事的任何新闻报道, 所以那天任何碰巧走进这家博物馆游览的人 会在这些炫目的灯光下看见我们。
You know, maybe they would want to see the old storytelling of the tapestries . 他们也许本想看这些壁毯讲述的古老的故事。
storytelling:n.讲故事;说谎话;adj.讲故事的;说谎的; tapestries:n.挂毯(tapestry的复数);v.饰以织锦画(tapestry的第三人称单数形式);
They were confronted by our virtual reality cameras. 但他们“遭遇”了我们的虚拟现实的摄像机。
confronted:v.使…无法回避;降临于;处理;面对;对抗;(confront的过去分词和过去式)
But a lot of people tried it, and over a five-day run we ended up with 54 pages of guest book comments, and we were told by the curators there that they'd never seen such an outpouring . 很多人尝试了这个虚拟现实的体验,经过五天的播放, 我们得到了54页的观看评论, 那里的馆长告诉我们 他们从来没看到过这么多的真情流露。
curators:n.馆长;监护人;管理者; outpouring:n.(感情的)迸发,倾泻;涌现;喷涌;
Things like, "It's so real," " Absolutely believable," 留言中有“太真实了”,“绝对可信,”
Absolutely:adv.绝对地;完全地;
or, of course, the one that I was excited about, "A real feeling as if you were in the middle of something that you normally see on the TV news." 当然了,还有一条最让我兴奋的, “这是一种真实的感觉, 就好像身处电视新闻中的场景。”
normally:adv.正常地;通常地,一般地;
So, it works, right? This stuff works. 虚拟现实的效果很明显,对吧？效果很震撼。
stuff:n.东西:物品:基本特征:v.填满:装满:标本:
And it doesn't really matter where you're from or what age you are -- it's really evocative. 它跟你来自哪里,多大年龄完全无关—— 它真的能让人感同身受。
Now, don't get me wrong -- I'm not saying that when you're in a piece you forget that you're here. 别误会——我不是说当你在那个作品中时, 你会忘了你在哪里。
But it turns out we can feel like we're in two places at once. 而是我们能够感觉到我们同处于两个地方。
We can have what I call this duality of presence , and I think that's what allows me to tap into these feelings of empathy . 我称其为二重存在, 我认为就是它使我能够完全地感同身受。
duality:n.二元性;[物]二象性; presence:n.存在;出席;参加;风度;仪态; empathy:n.神入;移情作用;执着;
Right? 对吧？
So that means, of course, that I have to be very cautious about creating these pieces. 所以,这也就意味着, 创作这些作品必须非常谨慎。
I have to really follow best journalistic practices and make sure that these powerful stories are built with integrity . 我必须遵循最好的新闻实践, 并且确保用诚信 去打造这些强大的故事。
journalistic:adj.新闻业的,新闻工作者的; integrity:n.完整;正直;诚实;廉正;
If we don't capture the material ourselves, we have to be extremely exacting about figuring out the provenance and where did this stuff come from and is it authentic? 如果我们不自己捕捉故事素材, 我们就必须彻底弄清楚 这些故事的出处, 以及它们是否真实可信。
capture:v.俘虏;捕获;攻占;夺得;刻画,描述;n.(被)捕获;(被)俘获 provenance:n.出处,起源;
Let me give you an example. 再来举个例子。
With this Trayvon Martin case, this is a guy, a kid, who was 17 years old and he bought soda and a candy at a store, and on his way home he was tracked by a neighborhood watchman named George Zimmerman who ended up shooting and killing him. 用特雷文马丁的例子,他是一个十七岁的小男孩, 他从商店买了苏打和糖果, 在他回家的路上,他被一个邻居跟踪, 这个名叫乔治齐默曼的人随后将他枪杀了。
soda:n.苏打;纯碱;苏打汽水(加果味,有时加入冰淇淋);无水碳酸钠; tracked:v.跟踪;追踪;(track的过去分词和过去式) neighborhood:n.附近;地区;街坊;adj.附近的; watchman:n.看守人;巡夜者;
To make that piece, we got the architectural drawings of the entire complex , and we rebuilt the entire scene inside and out, based on those drawings. 为了做这个作品, 我们得到了整个建筑群的建筑草图, 并基于这些草图,重建了整个室内和室外的场景。
architectural:adj.建筑学的;建筑上的;符合建筑法的; complex:adj.复杂的;合成的;n.复合体;综合设施;
All of the action is informed by the real 911 recorded calls to the police. 真实的911报警电话录音 告诉了我们事情的经过。
informed:adj.见多识广的; v.通知; (inform的过去分词和过去式)
And interestingly , we broke some news with this story. 有趣的是,在这个故事里我们发现了一些新闻。
interestingly:adv.有趣地;
The forensic house that did the audio reconstruction , Primeau Productions, they say that they would testify that George Zimmerman, when he got out of the car, he cocked his gun before he went to give chase to Martin. 进行音频重建的普里默制作公司声称, 他们可以作证 当乔治齐默曼从车里出来后, 在追赶马丁之前就把枪上了膛。
forensic:adj.法院的;辩论的;适于法庭的; reconstruction:n.再建,重建;改造;复兴; testify:v.证明,证实;作证;
So you can see that the basic tenets of journalism, they don't really change here, right? 所以你们可以看到,身为记者的基本原则 在这里并没有发生改变,不是吗？
tenets:n.原理,原则(tenet的复数);信条;
We're still following the same principles that we would always. 我们始终都在遵循着原则。
principles:n.原则;主义;本质;政策;(principle的复数)
What is different is the sense of being on scene, whether you're watching a guy collapse from hunger or feeling like you're in the middle of a bomb scene. 不同的是真正处在这个场景中的感受, 不管你是在观察一个饥饿难耐,瘫倒街头的人, 还是感觉你处在一个爆炸现场。
And this is kind of what has driven me forward with these pieces, and thinking about how to make them. 这就是驱使我一直做这些作品, 和思考如何制作它们的原因。
We're trying to make this, obviously, beyond the headset , more available. 很显然,我们正在努力去让这些作品脱离头戴式耳机,更方便观看。
headset:n.耳机;头戴式受话器;
We're creating mobile pieces like the Trayvon Martin piece. 我们正在制作移动设备上可观看的作品,比如特雷文马丁的作品。
mobile:n.手机;汽车;移动电话;adj.活跃的;可动的;
And these things have had impact .
impact:n.影响;效果;碰撞;冲击力;v.挤入,压紧;撞击;对…产生影响;
I've had Americans tell me that they've donated, direct deductions from their bank account , money to go to Syrian children refugees . 有些美国人告诉我他们已经直接将自己 银行账户中的一部分钱捐献给了叙利亚儿童难民。
deductions:n.扣除(deduction的复数);[会计]扣除额;扣减项目; bank account:n.银行账户; refugees:n.避难者;逃亡者;难民;(refugee的复数)
And "Hunger in LA," well, it's helped start a new form of doing journalism that I think is going to join all the other normal platforms in the future. 另外,“洛杉矶饥荒” 开创了一种新的做新闻的形式, 我认为这种形式在未来将会和 其他任何普通平台融合。
platforms:n.平台; v.把…放在台上;
Thank you. 谢谢。
(Applause)