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Hollywood Going Digital and 3D
teutonic_leech writes "Last weekend the Directors Guild of America hosted its annual Digital Day event, which gives filmmakers a look at revolutionary new movie-making gear. Judging from a Wired article reporting on the gathering, Hollywood's future not only seems to be digital - there are also indications that stereoscopic 3D has caught the attention of filmmakers in and outside tinseltown. One Indie filmmaker even went so far as to build his own homebrew stereolens attachment enabling him to film in 3D."
TOO LATE!
Video Games have gone digital and 3D like 15 years ago.
Movie and TV are doomed to death!
End of story... Nothing to see.. Move along...
...because the 2D editions aren't as he imagined them, not to do with making more money or anything. It's like a generation of Sci-Fi fans cried out "Nooooooooooo!" and were silenced.
Greebo is rumoured to be 3D'ed first. Before Han...
(some of the above may not be true)
We'll have some actors that aren't shallow :)
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How does 3d make a better film... Whatever happened to plot, cinematics and suspense...
They'll use it for pr0n first; expect more in-your-face schlongs (cough) and beach-ball style fake breasts rubbed against the camera.
As for plot, cinematics and suspense.... frankly, most porn does this so badly, you wish they didn't bother.
If they're going to do those at all, I wish they'd do them properly. Personally, I can't stand watching most porn with the sound turned up because it's very badly (and more importantly very *obviously*) dubbed by two people in a studio- typically a woman whose job it is to do some fake moaning and suck her fingers, and a guy who has to occasionally grunt and spout crap like "Oh yeah, baby".
That aside, it *will* be used for porn, although I doubt it'll improve the quality of most of it.
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How about new technology that can be used to write better scripts?
I'm sure, somewhere, somebody in Hollywood was simply thinking of a way to make it so people could not pirate movies. Voila! Encode the movies to the human eye, make it so you need a special De-coder to view them! No more piracy. Okay, its a stretch, but we'll no longer be able to 'observe' bootlegged copies of professional films.
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