You introduced Media Rooms at the same time you are
going to buy theaters ?
I think, that Media Rooms will increase general interest to the movies, and
rather increase than decrease the theater grosses. The Room experience is far
from Theater experience. People who watch the movies in Media Rooms, visit also
theaters.
+ + July 2nd : Settings + +
You have planned new setting system ?
It is a puzzle like system. It makes it possible to
store and reuse old settings. In the system, you attach walls, floors and
ceilings into aluminum or steel frames. Frames have are built from tubes, which
have standardized mountings and attachments. Boxed tube's sides are around 2.5
cm or one inch. These frames have holes for attaching corner support rods and
back support rods. Steel and aluminum tubes are strong enough for keeping a thin
paper carton / carbon / plastic setting in shape. After usage you can put the
room settings into storage for later usage. Settings are only 3 - 6 cm deep (
1-2 inches ). To one meter storage space, you can put as many as 20-30 rooms.
When you need the room settings, you drag it out from the row, and take it to
studio.
You can also build stronger outdoor settings with the
system.
Is it very expensive ?
In the beginning the steel parts cost more than wooden parts. In the long run
it will be cost effective. The settings can be stored without the expensive steel
parts, the steel parts ( pipes, nuts, mountings, etc ) can be used
constantly.
The time it takes to construct setting system is smaller than it is with
the traditional system. Demolition is also much more quicker.
Main thing in the system is to reuse the existing settings.
When you
produce small budget movies, the setting system gives you a
possibility to use slightly better settings.
Is it possible to create Inception like rolling studios
with settings ?
Yes. You have to use stronger floor pipes in walls and ceilings. The
expensive rotating system can be stored, and reused in other movies. Settings
have a general mounting system. After you have built the rotating system, with
general mountings, you can build all kinds of settings inside the rolling
tube.
Settings have seamless surfaces on the front. You can make rivers, ponds
and beaches with the system.
The setting system is built from small pieces, it provides flexibility to
the system.
Big Art town studios will also have tracks in the ceilings. Stolen from assembly
lines. Trays will have general mounting system. It is possible to hang lights,
cameras, water tanks, cranes, wires, cameramen, actors, actresses, etc to or
with the track system. Track system is a grid system, you can place things to
every where, and you can move things while you are shooting.
If Iron Man or Thor is jumping from one roof to another, it is possible to
assist him with tracks.
Track systems are probably one solution, with what the 3DB boxes are
shot. Additional cameras are attached to the tracks, and they are used to take
footage from the "hidden" places.
One the finest thing in the settings is that you print the surfaces /
coating directly from the computer to the film. The film can be attached to
the setting.
+ + 3D Movies + +
What makes picture and movie 3 dimensional ?
3 dimensional looks and shapes comes from the lights
and shadows. It has been common knowledge for a very long time now.
One very interesting thing 3D pictures was, when they
came to computers, that you had learn the 3 dimensional looks. It was impossible
to see things in 3D space, before you read the description, where the thing was
actually said and taught to you.
On computer screens the light always comes from the top
left corner of the screen.
This leads to the thing, that when you do 3D movie, you
should show the source of light to the audience. When you for example change the
place, you could show where the light sources are. It improves the watching experience.
Very important thing in clips where location of the
light is not clear.
+ + 3DB Boxes + +
3DB boxes are quite simple ?
Yes, they are quite simple. It required quite lot of work and time to find
out the system.
The main difficulty is currently in shooting. It does not have a simple
all-around solution.
The biggest open thing in boxes is opaque issue : You must make the models
opaque, so that they hide things, which are behind them. It is possible to
use black inner bodies in the models. And coat the model with colors. Although
the coating is not necessarily needed in movies, it is needed in many other 3DB
box applications.
What makes 3DB boxes sensational ?
You can actually see the figure. When you walk in the theater, you see the
characters and objects from a different angle. Just like they really were in
the box.
How big the boxes will be ?
Do not know. When I planned NP theaters, I decided to place the screens in
3 screen sets. So, that we can use one screen for two 3DB boxes. It is only a
space reservation.
In castle I reserved 30 ft for the box.
Would it be possible to place the beams to the back ?
It is not possible to target laser beams towards people. Beams must be kept
inside the box. It is the only restriction to the beams.
When will they come ?
Not for a long time. Things didn't go like they were
almost forced to go, thanks to Mr. Mighty Black, Spilling Team and few others.
Might take few decades before they come.
Floor projection / plan from the room.
Shooting with the 3DB cam is not as difficult as you might
think.
3DB cam is very different from the current cams. Current cams store the color values, which are reflected to
the lens.
3DB cams store the color values and also the location of the
color.
It knows the position and height of the color pixel. When you shoot with 3DB cam, you never need blue
screens.
The color values and pixels can be replaced with simple calculations. It is very easy to remove, replace or modify things from the
ready made 3DB model.
When you shoot in the closed room, you can open ceilings,
floors and walls, when you shoot action in the scene.
Before or after the shooting you can take footage from the
missing parts like ceiling.
Then you can combine the clips together with simple calculations. In most cases shadows and lights makes the ceiling easiest replaceable
element in the room, or space.
In movie production you do not usually need very accurate shapes from the back.
In the picture, the filler cam is marked with with
blue. It takes footage from the places, which are not reached with primary cam.
The blue filler can also be the second primary cam. The filler cams do not
necessarily have camera men and controls. The pink cam in the back is a filler
cam.
The additional "filler"-cameras are new things in 3DB
boxes, they are used to fill parts of the picture,
which are not stored with the primary cam. The primary cam is used just like the cam is used now.
It is quite obvious, that quite often there will two or three
primary cameras. But their operations are synchronized, and they are used as if there was only one camera.
3DB boxes brings a new elements to the post processing, besides cutting, you can also rotate and roll the footage.
+ + Technical requirements + +
Technical requirements for the 3DB boxes are enormous. Currently there are app 9 million pixels per frame.
3DB boxes' maximum pixel count is about 19,110 million. In practice the required amount of color dots,
which are actually used with one frame, is around 100 million.
You do not create color dots to the empty spaces.
The Frame speed is increased to 70 FPS or 70 Hz. 70 FPS gives the best possible results.
People didn't like 100 Hz TV-sets, they were too fast,
and the sets didn't match to eye's own FPS speed.
People complaint, that the picture does not run smoothly.
