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The impact of digital technology is being felt—for better and worse—across a wide variety of cultural sectors (books, music, photography).
One of the most prominent disruptions has been in the rapid evolution of tools used to shoot, distribute, and project motion pictures.
The new documentary, Side by Side provides an insightful record of this moment in the film industry—the migration from traditional film capture, duplication, and delivery to digital cinema technology. It offers a thoughtful exploration of where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going in this industry.
Written and directed by Christopher Kenneally, it is co-produced and narrated by actor Keanu Reeves who brings his own front-of-camera experience into the mix.
It’s easy to be giddy about the incredible new possibilities enabled by emerging technology.
And it’s easy to be maudlin and nostalgic for old mediums and formats. Side by Side provides an unsentimental platform for prominent and passionate advocates—pro and con—to examine in more detail different facets of the transition.
“You can’t shoot 3D on film…so film has been dead in my heart for ten years” —James Cameron, director
“I hate 3D. I put on those glasses, I get sick to my stomach. The whole 3D phenomenon, it’s a marketing scheme, isn’t it?”
—Wally Pfister, cinematographer
There is mainstream (George Lucas, James Cameron) and esoteric (Lars von Trier, David Lynch, Lena Dunham) support for digital filmmaking that enables advanced effects and “democratizes” access.
There are also persuasive diatribes (from director Christopher Nolan, cinematographer Wally Pfister, and others) noting what is sacrificed, tangible and intangible, with the loss of the chemical film process and accompanying workflow.
I try not to do reviews here, but Side by Side is an excellent, entertaining film. Balanced, beautiful to look at (in handsome 2D), it’s a must for anyone who cares about this business. Martin Scorsese, fresh off his triumphant 3D Hugo gets the last word: “How do you use it to tell a story? It’s up to the filmmaker.”
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It’s been a while since I posted to either of my blogs for a combination of reasons.
One is being deeply immersed in doing the work that informs what I write about. The other, more difficult to describe, is grappling with something I’ll call “good internet citizenship.”
I work in technology—for the last dozen or so years at publicly traded companies. The deeper I dive into social media and online discourse, the more I realize the repercussions injudicious sharing can have.
While serving as Marketing Communications Director years ago for a publicly traded high tech company I went through formal media/PR training and had it drummed into me that information made public has to be disclosed equally. When this CFO lost his job for indiscreet tweeting I wasn’t surprised.
Investors, stock market bulletin boards, and chat rooms sometimes engage in a kind of Kremlinology for which offhand comments on Twitter and blog posts can easily become fodder.
Of course I know the rules about “quiet period.” It’s like Fight Club—you can’t talk about Quiet Period.
Not to mention signed non-disclosure agreements standard in our industry. So what about tweeting where I’m traveling? Industry gossip? Or my experience at a previous company that just went through a very public, very painful power struggle?
Although I’m gregarious both in real life and online, I know that I don’t have the luxury of making choices for myself alone. I am part of something bigger: a company, with management, colleagues, shareholders, and customers to whom I am responsible.
“The better part of valor is discretion,” said Shakespeare’s Falstaff, but does that mean that I can’t have a voice in the extremely exciting developments going on with the fields in which I have expertise?
I’ve been mulling these questions over and have come up with the following “Terms of Service.” I promise to abide by my end of the ethical bargain, and the following is what, dear reader, I expect from you.
Terms of Service:
- My opinions are my own and don’t reflect the views of my employer, professional associations, family, or condo association.
- What catches my eye is just that, what catches my eye. I’m not sending secret messages in code. Period.
- If I have inside knowledge of good news about any publicly traded company (employer, ex-employer, customer, etc.) I can’t tell you. If I know bad news about same, I can’t tell you.
- I will use language sometimes—usually quoting someone else—that you might not want your grandmother or grandchild to hear, consider yourself warned.
Acceptable use policy: you may use my blog posts, tweets, writing to make you think. You are welcome to agree, disagree, applaud and/or debate. You are welcome to share and exchange ideas with others.
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Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some writing to catch up on!
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Okay, I know it’s old school anaglyph…and an annual report…for a fast food company—but this is very cool use of 3D in design.
The company Restaurant Brands operates Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Starbucks in New Zealand and is publicly traded on the New Zealand Stock Exchange. They have taken the traditional stodgy annual report—financials and all—and by applying clever design turned it into a creative, whimsical, attractive statement about the company.
Click on this link to see the whole document online. And maybe buy some stock!
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Upcoming event in Los Angeles this weekend looks fantastic! It’s a joint presentation by the LA Guild of Puppetry and the Los Angeles 3D Club. For more information visit their website here. Can’t wait to see the pictures!
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The first HD trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming version of The Great Gatsby has been released. Based on the 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. The film will star Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan and is scheduled to be released in December.
It is very different from the extremely beige Francis Ford Coppola (with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow) version of my youth and the visuals in the trailer are tantalizing! The range of 3D films and development of stereoscopy as a storytelling tools continues to expand.
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Toshiba uses a clever spoof—a faux launch for a new 3D monocle called “Spectacle“—to publicize its line of 3D laptops and other products. It’s witty and fun. The Spectacle is billed as ideal for everyone, especially those “who don’t like bulky 3D glasses but just can’t wait for glasses-free 3D”.
Accessories include designer red and blue lenses, a chain, and carrying case. There’s a silly video ad as well. Enjoy!
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France’s Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée or CNC (in English “National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image”), is instituting an effort to ban silver screens across France and in the process making a strong statement on one of the nagging issues of digital cinema projection, low light levels, while dealing a serious blow for leading 3D exhibition systems.
Carole Lombard on the cover of a 1930 issue of «Silver Screen» magazine. The term is emotionally linked to the golden age of cinema.
Silver screens are synonymous with old school cinema, but in recent years they have become a required part of the kit for one of the most popular 3D exhibition systems, RealD. They also tend to have a brightness differentiation so light levels drop off around the edges of the screen area creating a “hot spot” effect reminiscent of the old school movie experience.
This compromises image quality for non-3D films and can impair viewing from some angles within the cinema.
The CNC on behalf of the French government is charged with “supporting, regulating, negotiating, promoting and distributing, cooperating with local authorities, protecting film heritage.” In the interest of improving image quality and visibility they are mandating that silver screens be phased out going forward. While the ban will not impact competitors Dolby and X-pand, RealD has a market share of about 75% of deployed 3D screens in France. The agreement to transition away from silver screens to bright white is being seen as a challenge to usability for 3D.
Variety has an excellent summary here, and the original announcement, billed as an agreement to guarantee quality in digital cinema, is available here (in French).
Planet3D comment: this is a reminder that technology has to keep up with quality demands. It’s a commercial challenge, but in the final analysis audience experience is the most important thing.
The so-called «halo effect»
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Planet3D features a section from a 19th century painting of a woman entertaining herself with a stereoscope.
In a brave, creative move the NY Public Library has made more than 40,000 stereograph images available online at a new site along with a tool it’s calling the “Stereogranimator.”
Stereoscopes are a fascinating part of 3D history. They remind us that 3D is not a new entertainment phenomenon but a technique we human beings have been playing with for a very long time. The cards themselves are windows into other times and places—the stereo effect often brings a startling realism to a old-fashioned sepia image.
This Sterogranimator tool lets users select an image from the archive, render it as an animated gif and/or an anaglyph image (where two color offsets create the illusion of depth).
These can then be shared in the online gallery (and in the case of the anaglyph images, viewed with red/blue glasses).
A page of frenetic flashing gifs or anaglyph pictures at first glance may seem, well, silly. Take some time to look at them and notice the subject that photographers chose to shoot (and site visitors chose to “stereoanimate”—the depth of images, the vantage points, the subject matter. It will bring you closer to some pretty amazing people, places, and things.
While debate continues about 3D as a cheap commercial trick or powerful visual tool this project brings interesting insight and context.
Thanks NY Public Library.
From the private collection of Planet3D: before cats on the Internet there were stereoscopic cats.
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The countdown has started for the re-release of the 3D-converted “Star Wars Episode 1: the Phantom Menace” on February 10, 2012.
One look at the trailer and it’s clear why this a perfect candidate for 3D. In the hands of a special effects perfectionist like director George Lucas the quality of the 3D conversion should be excellent.
But beyond the fanboy demographic and Hollywood’s canny mining for content to convert there’s an interesting context to this particular project.
George Lucas was an early and passionate advocate of digital cinema. “Phantom Menace” back in 1999 was one of the first high-profile films shot in digital format. I remember the special screening at the annual NAB show (1999?) that galvanized the industry. We all realized this was the turning point in the acceptance of digital cinema and the rumor was that Lucas planned to use film only in digital going from then on.
(Lucas’ recent labor of love, the action film “Red Tails”, is 3D only.)
Fast forward to CinemaCon 2011; Lucas—on a panel with well-known 3D cheerleaders James Cameron and Jeffery Katzenberg—predicted, “So now, when you’re watching a movie and it’s not in 3-D, it’s like watching in black and white. It’s a better way of looking at a film… I totally believe now that 3-D will completely take over just like color did.”
Last week in an interview published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Lucas elaborated:
What made you want to convert this film into 3D?
Originally, I was not a big fan of 3D. I really thought it was a gimmick. But later, I was trying to get digital projectors into the theaters, doing a presentation in Las Vegas, when Bob Zemeckis and Jim Cameron came up to me and said, “We want to get 3D into the theaters. Would you join us in showing the theater owners that you can do 3D?” I said, “That’d be good because to do 3D you have to have digital theaters.
So it would promote my idea of digital theaters.” When I saw the test that we did of “Star Wars” in 3D, I saw how great it looked.
How does seeing the film in 3D enrich the experience?
It’s like the difference between watching a film in black and white and watching it in color. It works in black and white but it works better in color. You don’t have to watch in 3D, but it actually works better in 3D. The depth brings a lot of reality to the digital characters like Jar Jar Binks and Watto. You feel that they’re more realistic.
The requirement for projecting 3D films has been an important catalyst in the wider deployment of digital cinema technology. This release is part of a wave of conversion of beloved classics to 3D that can help satisfy the demand for better content.
For both hardcore geeks revisiting an important chapter in a beloved saga, and a new generation of science fiction fans this is going to be an epic event!
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I had the great pleasure and privilege of attending the International 3D Society’s 2012 Technology Awards January 15. It was a pleasure because there was a great venue, great luncheon, and it was a truly fun event. I was privileged to be in the company of pioneers, brainiacs, and fellow enthusiasts.
All of the winners are doing very interesting things—I want to take this opportunity to highlight some of the extraordinary work being done behind the scenes in this industry to ensure high quality, flexibility, and the best possible enduser experience.
The awards went to the following—in alphabetical order—for the achievement indicated.
Click on highlighted items for links to more information about each particular company and award-winning technology.
Blu-ray Disc Association – “Blu-ray 3D Specification” This how we get 3D into your living room!
Corey Bridges accepting on behalf of Cameron-Pace.
Cameron/Pace Group – “Shadow D Technology and the Shadow D System” High-end, professional gear based on the genius idea of shooting 2D and 3D simultaneously on the same rig to make life easier for content producers everywhere (think sports).
Fuji – “Fujifilm Finepix Real 3D W3 Digital Camera” An affordable, consumer 3D camcorder. This brings 3D into the world of home video, and also serves as an entry-level 3D camera for budding auteurs.
Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative – “FHD3DGI Standard” so there is a consistent standard across manufacturers of active shutter glasses. This is good (and I have a closet full of proprietary chargers to prove it).
Kudos to Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, and XPAND.
GoPro – “3D Hero System” A nifty kit that puts together two Hero HD cameras into a (relatively inexpensive) rig to shoot 3D (and 2D).
HDMI Licensing, LLC – “Standardization of 3D Formats over the HDMI Interface. Specification Version 1.4a” If you are reading this blog you’ve probably seen High-Definition Multimedia Interface® (HDMI) interface and cables. Again, this is a standard that, when strictly adhered to, assures maximum interoperability between different manufacturers and their products. This spec addresses issues particular to 3D so it’s an enabler.
LG Electronics – “LG Cinema 3D TV” State-of-the-art 3D television set.
Panasonic – “AG-3DA1 Twin Lens 3D Camera Recorder” A high quality 3D camera in a compact form factor. This is important because getting two lenses close enough together is a huge challenge. Cumbersome camera equipment has been one of the biggest barriers on the content side.
This is important progress.
Peter Wimmer – “Stereoscopic Player” Peter’s company 3DTV.at (from Austria) makes a well-regarded, solid, reliable software player for 3D content on PCs.
Silicon Imaging – “SI-3D Stereo Digital Cinema Camera System” is a 3D digital camera system that has an integrated stereo visualization system that enables immediate (no special processing) playback and editing capabilities using some neat visualization tools.
Buzz Hays from Sony accepting award.
Sony – “HDR-TD10 3D Handycam Camcorder” It’s a camcorder, an HD camcorder, a 3D HD camcorder. Let that sink in for a minute!
Sony – “Playstation 3” Maybe you’ve heard of it? We’ll forgive them for erroneous warnings implying it’s dangerous for young kids (it’s not) because they are getting 3D into more hands.
Vizio – “Theater 3D” Big, beautiful 3D television with affordable (passive) glasses.
YouTube – “3D Channel” In a few short years YouTube has changed the way the world consumes video.
The YouTube 3D channel is another potential game-changer.
Society President Jim Chabin talking about the «Make it 3D» campaign.
These are exciting and interesting times. Congratulations to the International 3D Society and all of the honorees.
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