3D technology

A 3D movie is defined as: a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance. 3D technology and 3D films are a lot different from 2D technology and 2D films, they are a lot more advanced. The main difference from a 3D film and a 2D film is the fact that when filming a 3D film you need to use a pair of cameras that are places beside each other at the same distance as the separation of the human eye which gives you a film for the right eye and a film for the left eye, they do this to try and recreate (with cameras) what humans do naturally. Humans are able to perceive the spatial relationship between objects just by looking at them because we have 3D perception, also known as depth perception. As we look around, the retina in each eye forms a two-dimensional image of our surroundings and our brain processes these two images into a 3D visual experience. e.g

Without any specific concentration needed your brain automatically transfers this image into a 3D image in your head. The next stage is in projection, there are two mechanisms widely used so that the left eye receives information from the left film and the right eye from the right. The two most common techniques are: To use colour filters To use polarised glasses

Colour Filters The left film is passed through a red filter and the right film is passed through a green filter. The audience have to wear special glasses with corresponding coloured filters so the left and right images arrive at the correct eyes. This technique is an older technique and is not

used as often anymore this is because better techniques have come about and also using these colour filters caused the colours of the film to be distorted by the filters, giving a slightly blurred picture quality. Polarised Glasses These are a more modern technique; polarised light will pass through polarised glasses only if they are both polarised in the same direction (because of the positioning of the atoms in the glass). By using horizontal polarised glass in one lens of the glasses and vertical in the other, they are able to project the left and right films with the corresponding polarisation so they pass through the glass and are not blocked out, therefore the information is correctly received. The advantage of this technique is that the colour information is not distorted unlike the colour lenses. However there is also a disadvantage, a special screen is required to maintain the polarisation and the glasses are relatively expensive.

Examples of 3D Film: Avatar Shark boy and Lava girl Kung Fu Panda 2 Brave Avengers The Hobbit How to Train your Dragon Toy Story 3 Monsters Vs Aliens

Ghosts of the Abyss Up Friday the 13th Part 3 Space Station Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Ice Age - Dawn of the Dinosaurs The Final Destination ect