This month I had the opportunity to lead a two-day Panasonic/DirecTV-sponsored workshop in connection with a national 3D student movie making contest. I also led a longer (five-day) student workshop in Mumbai in February that was vastly different in tone and scope. The Indian sessions featured almost three days of teaching story development skills, a […]
One of the reasons frequently cited for the current fad among shooters demanding larger and higher K cameras is this little matter of depth-of-field. Advocates for battleship-size imagers in cameras claim that a narrow depth of field is essential to producing first-class work, and that no self-respecting shooter would be caught dead shooting with a […]
Many industry folks are currently lamenting the slow uptake of 3D by the general public. They look at the sluggish sales of 3D plasma TVs this past Christmas and conclude that 3D must be doomed in the home market. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fact is that the marketing in general of […]
The effective 3D camera workshops emphasizes story as the motivating force behind all creative and technical decisions.
When it comes to utilizing higher resolution cameras one must always consider the total picture.
Shooters who are also generalists are in great demand right now, despite the rise of specialized technologies like 3D.
India is rapidly becoming the center of world cinema – and for good reason. Most of the world’s output of significant feature films each year now emanate from this part of the world.
Left-right eye discrepancies may not always be significant when overlaid in 3D!
It stands to reason: one looks at the world and we expect to see objects in focus. Blurry backgrounds and soft focus may be all the craze with the DSLR crowd, but remember such narrowly focused scenes lack clear depth cues and will quickly disorient your viewers. With the advent of 3D, shooters must again […]
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 […]