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Saturday, April 12, 2008
U2 Goes 3D
Entertainment Engineering - Volume 5 Issue 4: The first-ever live-action digital 3-D film, U2 3D, is a unique cinematic experience that places viewers within the pulsing energy of a stadium concert given by one of the world’s most popular bands. Marrying innovative digital 3-D imagery and multi-channel surround sound with the excitement of a live U2 concert, it creates an immersive theatrical experience unlike any 3-D or concert film that has come before.
Well, we all knew that this was coming.
ReplyDeleteThere are going to be a lot of people that will have problems with this technology. In some ways we are losing the essence of a live performance and the energy that it brings.
However we'll have to remember that the live performance will always be there for us to go to, and when the tickets to the 15,000 seat venue sell out in 4 minutes flat, were going to be happy we have the next best thing be displayed in 3-D right in our living room.
With all great innovations, it will take some getting used to. However, this technology is going to open so many doors and places we have never gone before in mainstream media
while this is an amazing feat of technology and art, live performances will always be better (plug for job security here)
ReplyDeletemusic videos make little sense to me - they're just fancy visualizations that play along a soundtrack, as if you're writing the libretto after the score. still, they're fun to watch, and I might just have to go buy this when it comes out...