[Philip Lelyveld comment: this is a report from the Ravensbourne’s 3D Storytelling event.]

[ScreenDaily]

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Napier said that he’d notice skills levels and understanding of 3D coming on by leaps and bounds in recent years. “You can communicate your intention much much quicker now. The industry at large is adopting it, and people are skilling up.”

Vision3’s Parks advocated more extreme uses of 3D. “The mantra has become too much depth is bad,” whereas he’d like to see “more of the volume of the subjetcs.”

Parks said: “Directors find it difficult to accept the roundness of stereoscopic…But it’s our responsibility as people working in 3D to help to explain and break down some of these preconceptions.”

He doesn’t mean breaking the frame with one spectactular shot per film, but working with the depth and volume of 3D throughout a whole project. “Where we’ve got to movie it now is about shot by shot, scene by scene, the whole picture. It’s not just one shot here and there.”

Humphreys agreed that audiences might want more extreme use of 3D. “I am getting frustrated at paying an extra fiver to watch something at the cinema that is pretty much the same in 2D. I want more of a 3D experience…Hollywood has done some safe 3D productions and it’s time to widen that platform a little bit.”

Victor Riva, who worked on Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, takes another approach: “I’m a purist, I like gentle stereo, looking at stereo as if I’m looking through a window on the world.”

Other topics at the conference included the need for increased levels of 3D training in the UK, not just for camera operators but for everyone involved in a production, especially directors and producers. …

There was also a groundbreaking live, glasses-free 3D link-up between Ravensbourne and Russia’s Tomsk Polytechnic University. [Philip Lelyveld comment: a story about this link was posted earlier.]

Read the full story here: http://www.screendaily.com/news/digital/as-3d-novelty-wears-off-some-experts-call-for-more-extreme-uses/5039712.article