3D in Asia Coming On Strong!
I’ve been on the road nearly constantly of late, traveling through Australia and Southeast Asia including Malaysia, Vietnam and India. The response to my 3D camera workshops has been overwhelming with shooters and producers emerging from seemingly out of nowhere to grasp the 3D gold ring. This response while intense across Asia has been somewhat more tepid across North America and Europe and I wonder why. This may be simply attributable to the poor economy in the US and elsewhere, but I think it may be something more. The Asian market seems much more willing in general to embrace new technologies. The cinema in general here, especially in India is also much stronger, offering a ready and eager vehicle for 3D Bollywood grandeur and glitz.
Beyond feature film production I’m also seeing a surge of interest in 3D from travel and tourism concerns, museums, and even wedding and event producers who seem eager to offer 3D programming. This is in Asia. This trend while taking root now is nowhere so apparent in the USA and Europe, where the current DSLR fad and the allure of a narrow depth of field still appears strong.
Why are Bollywood motion pictures so very prolonged? For starters, Indians are employed to extended kinds of leisure. Cricket matches survive for days and nights. So do Native American Indian weddings. A three-hour motion picture will not be incredibly lengthy in any way compared. Also, Indians tend to get value-conscious. They count on a total afternoon or evening of enjoyment for that worth from the ticket. But the largest cause Bollywood pictures are very very long is inventive. The time commitment crucial from the audience heightens their emotional investment inside the story. (Exactly the identical is accurate of operas, which are sometimes as lengthy or even lengthier than Hindi motion pictures.) The impression is typically powerfully moving, even for People today accustomed to decreased films. Bollywood movies are obtaining more compact, though, primarily mostly since you’ll locate fewer musical figures than there employed to get. Although 3 along having a half hrs was following typical, three hrs or perhaps a smaller volume is now the norm.
Tracey
Bollywood films are designed to provide entertainment for the entire family, so action adventure films will often feature song and dance numbers. You are correct that a typical Indian film requires an entire afternoon or evening commitment. It’s part of the film culture in that country that is disappearing unfortunately in the rest of the world.