Clash of the Titans remake trailer

[underEJ]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

. The director of this flick basically saying the 3D in this was crap and 3D is a Hollywood money grab. Of course it is.....

Shitty 3d is a money grab and the current system is 100% Clash of the Titan's god awful conversion's fault. When 3d is done right from storyboards to production to choosing the right system to view it with, it is absolutely amazing and a true addition to the story telling. Unfortunately very few movies are done that way. All conversions suck. There is no high quality conversion that is worth paying for. That is the studio sucker angle.

That being said, I think 3d is going to get a huge crack in the skull by the first brave director who puts his career on the line to try something new. The rules of composition and the visual language of film are designed for creating cinematic depth by arranging everything in frame in a particular way, mise en scene.

Nobody has begun to adjust those rules for the fact that the depth already exists by default in 3d. A very interesting accident of Great and Powerful Oz is that the 3d in the old style aspect ratio does some really interesting things. They didn't however explore that and is sits as a small happy accident in an otherwise fairly forgettable use of 3d.

We need some real exploration of the possibilities. The assumption that 3d is for event movies with lots of effects is the first convention that needs to be thrown out. 3d is very effective in Coraline in some very intimate (one or two characters in a small set) scenes. Animated movies are the place most exploration is happening but even that is tied to huge box office expectations and can't afford much risk.

Time for short film makers to turn a film festival on its ear with some bold and imaginative uses of stereo (3d) in small budget shorts. (I am lecturing myself here! I am long overdue for making another short.)