Changes in perception, and being perceived. Watch with red/cyan 3D glasses.

**Updated March 23rd: new soundtrack by Rob Drury!**

Co-Directors/Producers: Ellen Graser, Ryan Suits
Cinematographer: Brian Stevenson
Starring: Ellen Graser
Format: 16mm color reversal with two ARRI SR2's.

We chose to make this work in 3D, both as a technical exploration of what stereoscopic cinema was capable of, and because we felt this would embody the experience of interacting with a person in a way 2D cinema is not capable of.

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  • Ralph Mastromonaco 1 year ago
    i'm glad i kept these glasses
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  • robert veach 1 year ago
    nice work! I have been doing 3D for some time now. If you do a story bord for your 3D videos, you need to avoid any aspect changes to and back from the subject. There is only one 3D sweet spot. If you move horiznotally, this is a wasy to create scene changes and still keep the correct 3D offset. Download "stereocalc" freewaer to calculate everything you will need to do this.
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  • robert veach 10 months ago
    Is that Graceland Cemetery in Chicago?
  • Ryan Suits 10 months ago
    Nope, we shot in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester NY, home of Susan B. Anthony's grave and popular location amongst photography students.
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  • toneburst plus 8 months ago
    Impressive. I think there's something not quite right about the anaglyph setup though, as I get a lot of colour fringing when I look through red/cyan glasses.

    a|x
  • Ryan Suits 8 months ago
    Yeah, the base between lenses was about an inch wider than the distance between the human eye due to the width of the cameras, so optimum viewing distance is a few feet away from the screen. Though the use of red and cyan in the costuming at the end was done to intentionally disorient the audience with color bombardment.
  • Ryan Suits 8 months ago
    Ah, looks like the issue you pointed out might've been the left and right tracks accidentally swapped in the first scene. Should be fixed now, thanks for pointing that out.
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  • Jared Lyon 8 months ago
    You've got the entire sequence in the library/intro scene's 3D opposite from the rest of the footage. Was that intentional? What I mean is that, for the library scene, I have to have the red lense on the right eye, but once for everything else after that, I have to swap and put the red lense on the left eye.
  • Ryan Suits 8 months ago
    Oh no, I see what you mean... must've gotten mixed up somehow when I re-rendered it last night with the new soundtrack... that wasn't intentional. I'll replace this with a corrected version ASAP. Thanks for pointing that out!
  • Jared Lyon 8 months ago
    Funny enough, last month, I noticed a single shot in the 3D version of the recent film Coraline that was backwards as well. I'm super observant sometimes. :)
  • Ryan Suits 8 months ago
    Haha, wow, you'd think with the big budget and crew they had on that, someone would've noticed that mistake... lacking those I'm a bit more prone to overlooking obvious details.

    Fixed version should be up now. The opening's 3-D still isn't as crisp as the rest, we used some film stock from the 70's that came back from the lab a bit washed out and underexposed, but the effect should work the way it's intended. Thanks again!
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  • TRUTH and Beauty 8 months ago
    You'd have a better red/cyan anaglyph if you mute the reds out of the left eye video (reds in the monochromatic left movie creates retinal rivalry). Easiest way to do this is grey scale the left eye movie. You can also optimize it with the settings in the channel mixer/blender. ONly alter the RGB of the red channel in the channel blend or channel mixer, set Red = 0 Green =66-70 blue to 34-30.

    I personally avoid effects and rapid camera movement when composing 3D material.

    Keep creating 3D material in Philly- the west coast can't have all the fun!
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  • Snypod 2 months ago
    This may be one of my favorite uses of 3D I've ever seen. The whole thing is just beautiful. Is there a place where we can download the video in higher quality? This deserves better compression than what Vimeo has to offer.
  • Ryan Suits 1 month ago
    Thanks so much! At the moment I don't have a higher res version online for download. It can also be viewed on Youtube using their new 3D plugin that lets you watch it in a couple different 3D formats: youtube.com/watch?v=9Vml7_-irxE I was able to upload a higher res source file for that, though the end result looks about the same.
  • Snypod 1 month ago
    If you ever upload a higher quality version, let me know. I'd love to have a nicer copy of it. As for the YouTube version, there seems to be an issue where some shots have a wider separation between the left and right images. You can see this easily at 1:10. It's perfect on Vimeo, but not on YouTube. Probably YouTube's fault, but maybe there is something you can do about it on your end.

    Cheers.
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