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2010 Shoreel

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This is Showreel representing James Doherty's films as a Producer and Director within the past twelve months.

This is a current Showreel of project of recent projects made in the last 18 months, credited as either producer, director and writer.

The films vary from a film noir about a corrupt institution brought to it's knees, to two air guitarists rocking it out on stage with their idol Lord Byron. From a story about a search for lost love to a music video in the Hinterland with artist Lou Bradley.

To view these films check out my Vimeo Channel at http://vimeo.com/user5198154

George Miller to capture Aussie summer

George Miller wants you to capture the Australian summer. (Getty Images: Lucas Dawson )

Director George Miller wants to uncover a collective Australian summer experience that doesn't just involve boardshorts and barbecues.

The man behind Mad Max, Babe and Happy Feet is urging the public to record and upload their own experiences on YouTube.

"Over the next few months we invite you to take your camera, even if it's on your mobile phone, and show us what you see and hear and feel about the Australian summer," Miller said in an online video message.

Submissions to the Map My Summer online project close on March 31.

Miller will then choose five of the best videos and work with a young filmmaker to create a short to be showcased at the 2011 Sydney Film Festival.

3D history

For every $100 million made on a Blockbuster, $30 million is made profit as a result of 3D Merchandising. Though many would think that 3D is a recent fad it dates back to a chap named

Charles Wheatstone, who invented 3-D anaglyphs in 1838, paving the way for the eventual development of 3-D entertainment. Which in turn, allowed the 3D glasses provide depth and a sense of three dimensions to two-dimensional images. They reached a height of popularity in the 1950's with the advent of the first 3D blockbuster films.

3D glasses work by presenting two slightly different perspectives of the same image. To take advantage of traditional red & blue 3D glasses, one version of the image is filmd in red, the other is blue. The 3D glasses present a different perspective to each eye, tricking the brain into forming one three-dimensional image.

'House of Wax' released in 1953 was the first 3D Movie with stereo sound and full colour. It was made by Warner Brothers, the second Hollywood studio to join the 3D market.

Since then, 3D has been marketed at least 5 times as a new cultural phenomenon. The most succesful being the most recent with the recent release of Jim Cameron's latest film 'Avatar' starring Sam Worthington.

The year 2009 marked the 3D fever in the film industry where major film studios focused on 3D movies. A total of 10 3D films were released that year.

Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed.

This is an interesting article that I found on Roger Ebert's Journal about 3D movies and their place in cinema. "The notion that we are asked to pay a premium to witness an inferior and inherently brain-confusing image is outrageous. The case is closed" Understandably, this veteran takes a narrow minded view of the 3D and it's impact as a respected editor and sound designer.

The biggest problem with 3D, though, is the "convergence/focus" issue. A couple of the other issues -- darkness and "smallness" -- are at least theoretically solvable. But the deeper problem is that the audience must focus their eyes at the plane of the screen -- say it is 80 feet away. This is constant no matter what.

But their eyes must converge at perhaps 10 feet away, then 60 feet, then 120 feet, and so on, depending on what the illusion is. So 3D films require us to focus at one distance and converge at another. And 600 million years of evolution has never presented this problem before. All living things with eyes have always focussed and converged at the same point.

If we look at the salt shaker on the table, close to us, we focus at six feet and our eyeballs converge (tilt in) at six feet. Imagine the base of a triangle between your eyes and the apex of the triangle resting on the thing you are looking at. But then look out the window and you focus at sixty feet and converge also at sixty feet. That imaginary triangle has now "opened up" so that your lines of sight are almost -- almost -- parallel to each other.

Be Sure the check out the rest of this great article at: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/01/post_4.html

Arjun Basu

This guy has cleverly adopted a restriction on the micro-blogging of twitter to his creative boundary. Arjun Basu of Montreal, is a Author, writer, editor and Short Award winner (he claims he isn't that short). Basu, writes short sentence stories through twitter. One of my favourites by him recently was this: THe Bengal tigers at the zoo play trombone. The giraffes call them the Trom Cats. The zebras are too afraid of the tigers to play anything.

He posts several stories daily and highly recommend that you check him out.

http://twitter.com/arjunbasu

This is my first Film Role!