I mentioned this quite some time ago in the thread about 3D dying.
Kudos to Abraham for pulling this off, even had some coverage in the local press. Going from shooting on 5Ds to shooting 3D required a bit of a rethink.

On a related note James Cameron slams Hollywood for making inferior 3D may be of some interest.


One other interesting revelation about 3D came from someone I met who does 3D digital signage. This uses lenticular displays and seems to be taking off big time. I'm not too convinced about this at all. At least in our uber megamalls they have the digital signage over the escalators and I can well see shoppers taking a nasty fall trying to dodge a flaming arrow coming at them.

Bob.

I can see the shot of the bouquet being thrown - puts you right in the middle of gaggle of women of all shapes and sizes - frightening...

Couldn't be any worse than a video of the "chicken dance" - shudder!!

Mike

congrats to the producers for being the first....

however, i think a lot of people seem to be falling over themselves in the rush to 3d.

the first thing that springs to mind is if the bride and groom intend sending out copies of their '3d' wedding, are they going to be sending out glasses with which to view it?

i haven't really been paying much attention to the hype and bull being put out about 3d (just as i haven't bothered with hddslr, which now has to catch up in 3d no less!), but what strikes me is that we're rapidly heading towards a future where the technology seems to be more important than the content, and that that technology is driven by manufacturers eager to sell 'new' equipment to owners of perfectly good (not to say excellent) existing equipment (which thanks to solid state and reasonable construction) has a much longer working life than they'd like.

nearly all my work ends up being distributed on either dvd, or through the net - both of which seem to have inbuilt limitations in the first place, and those limitations are likely to remain for sometime yet. i know no one who's bought blu-ray, or has even thought about it, nor anyone who has looked to the net for hq 'feature' download - most preferring dvix or mp4.

more often than not we appear to be enthralled with the technology rather than the practicality - i tried shooting some hd footage on a dslr (can 550), the results were very good, but the experience of actually shooting it laughable, and when finally dumped to dvd along with hdv footage, the few viewers i showed it to didn't actually jump out of their seats whenever the dslr footage showed up. than again, they were 'normal' viewers schooled in regular tv, dvd, and youtube material....

i'm now eagerly awaiting 'senseosmell' ?©, not only can you be in that crowd of bouquet catchers, you can smell each individuals perfume (or lack of!!)

i'm now eagerly awaiting 'senseosmell'

Would you settle for the world's first IMAX-3-D erotic film?
Hong Kong film hopes to break new ground with 3-D porn

Mike

You realize there was a 3D porn film made in the 70's, I believe. It had something to do with airplanes and flight attendants. I don't remember the name and I never saw it, but it was real 3D and required the polarizing glasses to see.