{"id":172,"date":"2010-05-12T18:49:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2010-05-18T13:52:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T12:52:14","slug":"in-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/2010\/05\/in-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"In 3D!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"Coming soon! Something nobody wants and runs the risk of setting the medium of film back many decades!"<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u2019m not a luddite.\u00a0 I\u2019m not adverse to new technology.\u00a0 I\u2019m not opposed to the idea of change.\u00a0 I\u2019m not so naive as to think that things will always be the way they are and I\u2019m not stupid enough to think that things should always stay the way they are.\u00a0 I feel I need to qualify this statement before I make the following:\u00a0 I hate films in 3D.<\/p>\n

There are two major concerns that I have with 3D!!!! being incorporated into films:\u00a0 the all time favourite double act, Time and Money.<\/p>\n

Just to give a bit of background, to create a modern 3D effect in film (as opposed to the retro effect which required red\/blue glasses), there appear to be two methods.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a massive film technophile and I\u2019m feeling lazy on the research so this is going to be vague, but essentially the first way is to set up two cameras whilst filming in order to capture a depth of field.\u00a0 The second way is to take a finished film into post production and separate out different layers and with the assistance of extensive rotoscoping, bring it together to create the depth of field illusion afterwards.*<\/p>\n

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The first method can create some stunning and immersive effects and was used very effectively in Avatar, as James Cameron was essentially the pioneer of this technology and therefore knew every little detail about it before committing it to film.\u00a0 The second method can create something incredibly jarring and is used in pretty much every other film that has the dreaded words \u201cIn 3D!!!!!!\u201d after it.<\/p>\n

Ironically enough, the inclusion of 3D!!!! tends to completely flatten the film.\u00a0 What you end up with is something akin to the parrallax scrolling that used to feature in 16 bit platform games such as Sonic the Hedgehog.\u00a0 It certainly doesn\u2019t necessarily give you full immersion, even when done really well.\u00a0 Instead you are painfully reminded that you are watching a flat screen which perhaps looks to have a background moving very slowly, a middle\u00a0 ground moving at normal speed and a foreground moving slightly faster.<\/p>\n

Retrospectively adding 3D can have some adverse affects on the audience.\u00a0 People have at worst reported motion sickness, but more likely, your brain is just going to be unhappy with the visuals.\u00a0 Our sight gubbins that allow us to see are incredibly sophisticated, automatically adjusting for focus on objects that our brain picks out as important.\u00a0 The rotorscoped retrospective 3D!!!!! tends to decide for us what we\u2019re going to be focussing on by pulling its depth of field trick which can easily make your brain jump up and down screaming \u201cbut I wanted to look at that!\u201d.<\/p>\n

Actual Time and Money Concerns<\/strong><\/p>\n

In terms of production, adding 3D!!!!!! to a film costs a lot and time wise it can easily add at least six months onto the release date for a film.\u00a0 This is a lot of extra cash and a lot of extra production time that adds practically no value to the film.<\/p>\n

For an audience member, it\u2019s very obvious that this is a way to squeeze a few extra pennies out of us, even though in London you can easily pay \u00a310 for a ticket, and closer to \u00a313 if you buy a premium seat.**\u00a0 Not only that, but you\u2019re paying extra for an addition that not only doesn\u2019t add anything significant to the film but isn\u2019t really understood by the cinemas either.\u00a0 I am yet to see a film in 3D that they have managed to address the issue of lighting, because once you put on those idiotic glasses, your right hand instantly starts trying to grope for a non-existent remote control to adjust the brightness and contrast because everything suddenly gets very dark.<\/p>\n

Another issue with time and money is that in the back of my head, I worry that we\u2019re soon going to see a spat of older films being re-released in 3D!!!!!!, especially as 3D-ready televisions become more popular.\u00a0 It would be a sad state of affairs if studios suddenly started spending even more time and development on meddling with films that should be left alone.\u00a0 You might think this is unlikely, but there is precedent for re-mastered special editions that significantly alter the original work, and citing the only example that springs to mind would make me sound like an angry geek, so I shall resist for now.<\/div>\n

Finally, lets just clarify what makes good 3D and bad 3D!!!!!\u00a0 Generally if the film is filmed in 3D and whilst you are watching it you frequently forget that it\u2019s there, then it has been done well, although the question remains what is entirely the point of all that extra technology and development if the enhancement is so subtle you don\u2019t notice it, but never mind.\u00a0 If the film is more interested in throwing things so they look like they\u2019re flying out of the screen into the audience to make them flinch, chances are it will be on balance bad 3D!!!!!***<\/p>\n

Like any special effect, when there is too much focus on it, it can often be at detriment to the whole film, and I shall leave it at that before I derail myself into ranting about the Star Wars prequels like the angry geek that I\u2019m really not.<\/p>\n

Additional Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n

*If you\u2019re interested in the techniques used for filming in 3D, go and look it up.\u00a0 I\u2019m massively paraphrasing from what I\u2019ve read from third or fourth hand sources.\u00a0 When done properly, this is a very clever technique and is spectacular.<\/p>\n

I am still amazed that everyone puts up with the glasses though…<\/p>\n

**Just for the record, premium seats at odeon cinemas are no real different from other seats, except they are a different colour, and have a slightly higher back, and I do mean slightly.\u00a0 They are also located in that mid-back area of the cinema.\u00a0 They are highly highly frustrating, especially when the cinema is full except for the three large rows of seats in the prime viewing spot.<\/p>\n

***I admit, the thing-flying-through-the-screen trick is pretty funny the first couple of times you see it and feel the whole audience collide heads with whoever they\u2019re sitting next to in an automatic flinching movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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