tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12451891897695105282024-03-14T01:26:03.289-07:00Stereo ExpressionismThe Blog of the New 3-D GrammarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245189189769510528.post-40033713261236283142014-05-29T11:23:00.002-07:002014-05-29T11:23:54.805-07:00Cannes 2014What to say about Godard's "Farewell to Language"...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245189189769510528.post-88013992505489287502010-03-23T07:12:00.001-07:002010-07-05T13:40:16.677-07:00Successful! Thanks everyone!We raised our money for the pilot and are working on it now. Thanks to all our backers...<br /><br /><a href='http://kck.st/b0zi9K'><img border='0' src='http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/daydreamglacier/seamonster3dwebseries/widget/card.jpg' /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245189189769510528.post-76586374523601855152010-02-01T19:50:00.001-08:002010-02-01T19:50:18.653-08:00www.seamonsterseries.com<a href='http://kck.st/b0zi9K'><img border='0' src='http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/daydreamglacier/seamonster3dwebseries/widget/card.jpg' /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245189189769510528.post-27940643416154566962009-01-17T02:32:00.000-08:002009-01-17T02:43:52.103-08:00<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2321889&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2321889&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><a href="http://vimeo.com/">Sea Monster - the New Stereo Expressionism- nonHD version</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/daydreamglacier">Daydream Glacier</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br /><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2787733&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2787733&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><a href="http://vimeo.com/">Sea Monster- Flashback Test LeftRight Breakdown</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/daydreamglacier">Daydream Glacier</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim-PLkNAFQpWF7D5GSOzck3tzIwRKH1tbMMv-sBVmX15bKq2uf98FkdJ_ksi1NyGoWdFJH2tFz50r8Qa3Ka9LcBUYKWCbG1GCNWPU2v4TijRCEEyEaDBn_mjfXPhQxro-nJ4DCL9iVMRY/s320/Flashback+Blog+still+16up+top8.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292209858549334946" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245189189769510528.post-42329218747587127672009-01-10T21:04:00.000-08:002009-01-10T21:06:45.600-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjthiDs8iZtsyRuilIwtu2rbr7LAoC8asdSrUnCvgwME-LcEGrx3r8LYleErNQ_Z82oj_cUeJRBClFn2zJxE5agEbwGCZP7GW1SYmd3S9knS36kr2UVO3OieYBmMV2zcloezHqz-OmVH4w/s1600-h/SeaMonsterSurgery+Still+LR.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 186px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjthiDs8iZtsyRuilIwtu2rbr7LAoC8asdSrUnCvgwME-LcEGrx3r8LYleErNQ_Z82oj_cUeJRBClFn2zJxE5agEbwGCZP7GW1SYmd3S9knS36kr2UVO3OieYBmMV2zcloezHqz-OmVH4w/s320/SeaMonsterSurgery+Still+LR.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289898149267337634" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245189189769510528.post-4122258157513427202008-11-26T14:30:00.000-08:002008-11-29T07:05:08.255-08:00Going to 3-D Summit!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">We'll be at the <a href="http://3d-summit.com/">3-D Summit</a> Monday, Dec. 1st if anyone's interested in meeting up <a href="mailto:info@2k3film.com">drop us a line! </a></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Here's more tests-- this one has a breakdown of the left-right split at the end to clarify what we're doing.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Watch below with your red-cyan 3D glasses or <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/2356371">watch in HD here:</a></span></div><div><br /></div><br /><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2356688&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2356688&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/2356688">SPLIT GRAPHICS & STAGGERED FADE TEST "SEA MONSTER" nonHD</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/daydreamglacier">Daydream Glacier</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<div><br /></div><div>and here's the last post's clip, a.k.a. the "left eye flashback" test <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/2286653">(here in HD)</a></div><div><br /></div><br /><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2321889&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2321889&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/2321889">Sea Monster - the New Stereo Expressionism- nonHD version</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/daydreamglacier">Daydream Glacier</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245189189769510528.post-24398030425649579502008-11-22T11:01:00.000-08:002008-11-26T17:13:21.750-08:00...A Certain Tendency in Stereoscopic 3D Cinema...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhycuhem1l9Vfpd5F6z7g59KtneuqrQ7EDJrqEzC90tKStVbbbUPJPB5dfFeEJ7OHhR6WNLUFMZQmfvtf3lKOG8ByZMt7KmyJLx9jbOF2JQvbg5d04pMzGmdtm87YKALRth2TDM3_DqCXY/s1600-h/Picture+3.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 138px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhycuhem1l9Vfpd5F6z7g59KtneuqrQ7EDJrqEzC90tKStVbbbUPJPB5dfFeEJ7OHhR6WNLUFMZQmfvtf3lKOG8ByZMt7KmyJLx9jbOF2JQvbg5d04pMzGmdtm87YKALRth2TDM3_DqCXY/s320/Picture+3.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271610256286621874" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Stereo Expressionism</span> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">the New 3D Grammar</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Gray Miller's "Sea Monster"</span></span></span><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">At the beginning of cinema, the pioneers of the early twentieth century art form invented a new language and grammar for film. Close-ups, cross-cutting between parallel stories, POV shots, and the repetitive edits of Eisenstein were developed as artists realized that psychological subjectivity was more important than actual reality in the construction of stories with moving images.</span><br /></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />In 1960's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/">"Breathless"</a>, Jean Luc Godard created a stir with the addition of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_cut">jump cuts</a>, a new tool in the toolbox of film grammar. Now almost ubiquitous in handheld indie dramas, jump cuts had existed before 1960 only as accidents in damaged film prints, or the cut of last resort in poorly edited films that didn't have the coverage for seamless editing. JLG was the first to see jump cutting as a storytelling tool that fit the emotional space of his films, and the energy and distraction of their youth.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">The resurgence of 3D <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">can</span> begin a new chapter in film grammar.</span></span> </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">New technology exists, and the industry is drooling over the boost 3D gives ticket sales, but no one seems to be really <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">thinking about rethinking</span> the new form. With the exception of some beautiful layered graphics in the U23D concert film, the formula for the 21st Century 3D Cinema seems to be concentrated, for understandable reasons, on technical perfection of the depth effect</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />There is so much more </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">storytelling </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">and</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">film grammar potential</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Forget about depth for a moment.</span></span> Think about <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">juxtaposition</span></span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">association, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">and your audience's ability to hold two images in their head that are both visible, but neurologically and optically separate.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> </span></span> Understandably, the initial goal of every technology is the perfect imitation of "reality". But what we experience, especially in the art of cinema, is subjective and emotional. And here we have tools that allow us to design coordinated but potentially juxtaposed imagery and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">storytelling for EACH EYE</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> of the audience.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Get a pair of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">red</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">-</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">cyan </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">3</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">D</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">glasses and look at the image below</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Close your </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">left </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">eye</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">then your</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> right</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">, to see the separation. If you can't find a place for glasses, <a href="mailto:info@2k3film.com">email us </a> and we'll mail you a pair free--</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf84tbbfFQ0yB3ICOzQY08Y3mx3V6qz233lYLFnSSI1d4PrhbaAWKgeEQtsr7cpswmU44WU9joNYwTH4_1p3G9i5mYw5M9FH4RJMS4gaIWkynD4U85kYCoHvvEH3Oeo8OCmae6f5Q7x-Y/s320/Picture+6.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271589966005418274" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 136px; " /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Flashbacks no longer have to be cut to-- you can send the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">flashback</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> to the left eye while watching the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">character's reaction</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> in your right eye. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The protoganist </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">featured in the excerpt below from my film "SEA MONSTER" has undergone </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">split-</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">brain</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> surgery</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> in an attempt to control her epilepsy. Her seizure is indicated by a sudden switch from smooth 24fps 3D in both eyes to a blurry Chungking Express style </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">4fps in the right eye</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> while perfectly </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">crisp 24 fps in the left</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> eye</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">. For intertitles, the first half of a phrase is placed in the left eye and the second complimentary half in the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">right eye. My characters left/right disorientation is conveyed through </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">fade outs that cascade <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">across your brain as the left eye goes dark, then the right eye, and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">staggered overlapped cuts</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> that showed you the next shot a few frames earlier in one eye than the other.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">But I know, theorizing is easy, filmmaking is hard.</span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />So I tried it. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">And it works.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Again, to really understand the 3D and what we're doing with Stereo Expressionism, and see the separate elements of the storytelling, you need to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">get a pair of red</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">-</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">cyan 3D glasses </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">to</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> look at the clip below</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">. Watch it once with the glasses, once with your </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">left</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> eye closed, and once with your </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">right</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> eye closed to see the separate elements. If you can't find glasses <a href="mailto:info@2k3film.com">email us </a> and we'll send a pair for free.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">You can watch below or <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/2286653">watch it here in HD</a>:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2321889&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2321889&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/2321889">Sea Monster - the New Stereo Expressionism- nonHD version</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/daydreamglacier">Daydream Glacier</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">It's something 3D has never done before. It's, frankly, a whole new way of thinking about the artist's approach to the 3D toolbox for storytelling. Stop thinking about the depth and start thinking about storytelling grammar for two eyes.<br />You can call it the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">New 3D Grammar</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Stereo Expressionism</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">, or if you like, Gray Miller's weird </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21935099/">Sea Monster Web Series</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> noodling/sketchpad...<br />but you can see the first clip/test <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/2286653">here in HD</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">, if you don't see it above,</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">and we'll have </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">full episodes up starting in 2009</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><a href="mailto:info@2k3film.com">Contact Me </a><br /><br />Get ahold of some red-blue 3D glasses, and get ready for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">SEA</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">MONSTER</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxY3CTOvMenKC8zKCGqI-Cw-T2PBQ6KIxFzVpITUmh41O9Q1jG1EgAZgm_2d-NE9LU5YS93uHR6AJq_7AkwbB1astkkDyvI09aOOfZn7Yx0_7M6OlI8PHeJ3EymgKgWL-X1tTR69ockTc/s320/SeaMonsterTitle2small.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271578806967141282" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 136px; " />---</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">postscript, on "Getting It"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">I know it's difficult to explain the 3D features of the images and clip above when most of you don't have 3D glasses.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">At the simplest level-- if you're NOT wearing 3D glasses, the blue little girl footage just looks superimposed over the woman laying on the ground. But if you were wearing 3D anaglyph glasses, you would see the little girl flashback ONLY in your left eye, simultaneously seeing the woman on the ground ONLY in your right eye. And vice versa for the red "war" footage.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">If a split-brain patient was watching the clips above with 3D glasses, and you asked her what she saw, she'd say "I saw a woman having a seizure and then that faded out and I saw some war footage". No mention of the little girl. But if you asked her to draw with her left hand what she saw, she'd draw a little girl and then a woman having a seizure, with no drawing of the war footage. The images are separate. Our brains are assembling them.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Up until now, you've only had two film grammar choices for combining images to tell stories:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">1. Intercutting between two images via editing.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">2. Superimposing two images via fx/opticals/splitscreens</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Now you have 3: Juxtaposing imagery in the audience's brain by sending one image to their left eye and a separate image to their right, using 3D technology for a new storytelling function apart from depth simulation.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">By necessity, I've had to conduct these tests with inexpensive cameras and homebrew rigs, and show them in red-cyan anaglyph. With professional level equipment that gets better convergence and professional projectors that don't require red-blue fringing, the effect would be even more unique and pronounced.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Thanks and hope to post more clips soon!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0