3d Storytelling - 9780240818757

The ultimate guide for learning how to best direct, design, and frame your shots for your 3D film. With an emphasis on the aesthetic over the technical, this book will save you time, money, and the stress of having to haphazardly attempt to fix your stereoscopic movie in post. This accessible, 4-color book comes with a pair of 3D glasses to view the anaglyphic images contained within, and includes lessons on: * Using 3D to advance your storytelling * The primary differences between shooting in 2D and 3D * Preproduction, production, and postproduction techniques to ensure a comfortable 3D-viewing experience for your audience * Depth Bracket and Stereoscopic Window Violations * Convergence and Focus Decoupling * Closed and Open Space * 2D Depth Cues in 3D, and more Hollywood producer, consultant, and professor Bruce Block and DreamWorks’ stereoscopic supervisor Phil ‘Captain 3D’ McNally bring you practical, life-learned lessons that you can immediately apply to the 3D film you’re working on. The book is filled with 4-color images, common artistic pitfalls 3D filmmakers encounter and how to avoid and fix them, and a comprehensive glossary. Also included are videos posted to the book’s dedicated stereoscopic YouTube channel that can be watched with the glasses included in the book.

* 30-year Hollywood veteran Bruce Block and DreamWorks’s stereoscopic supervisor Phil McNally present the first and only book to focus on the aesthetic and artistic value 3D can bring to storytelling, character development, and other structural elements of a film * 4-color (and sometimes anaglyphic) images in the book provide you with visual examples of the lessons conveyed in the book * The book features a 3D Youtube companion site where videos demonstrating concepts in the book can be viewed with the glasses that comes with the book