Monday, May 16, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
2010 Shoreel
Showreel from Dog See Airplane on Vimeo.
This is Showreel representing James Doherty's films as a Producer and Director within the past twelve months.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
George Miller to capture Aussie summer
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.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
3D history
Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed.
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.