JON MENDENHALL writes:
Today I got a chance to sit in a teleconference with James Cameron and Vince Pace from Avatarr, as well as several producers and directors of new 3D technology for theater and televisions.
For those of you who don't know, 3D technology is making a comeback and Xpand is the company leading the charge. Instead of relying on spectrum separation (red and blue glasses) or polarized lenses (IMAX 3D), they instead alternate the shutters between the eyes to give different images to each eye. The talk was very informative, in terms of the limitations they experienced when filming and in post, as well as the new creative possibilities (specifically variable depths of vision).
I also got a chance to see the film PVC-1. The film was shot as one continuous take. The film involves a mother who has a bomb strapped to her neck, and she's ordered to give 15 million pesos or she dies. The film suffers the same problem as Children of Men. The long takes don't serve to build tension, especially when the family has to move to different locations. It was an amazing technical feat, but the idea of one continuous take seems foreign in my film world.
Like when a magician performs a trick, I try to find the flaws or the secret behind the filming. But it was difficult to find any mistakes here.
Jon Mendenhall is a Critical Studies major.
Posted by awiens at May 17, 2008 9:14 AM
