High Drama in 3D

Posted on January 14, 2010 in Cinematography | No Comments

Stephan Fleet, Visual Director of Killers, a drama using 3D, sits down to an interview about how to accomplish 3d without a James Cameron budget.

…We built our own for two HVX cameras with cinema adaptors. [Killers DP] David C. Smith built it, to be specific. For Red cameras, I worked on a movie called The Hole directed by Joe Dante. He used two Red cameras with a beam splitter to acquire the image. A beam splitter is necessary for larger lenses and cameras because you can’t get the two lenses close enough together to get the proper distance that human eyes would have from each other (about 66mm). So think of a beam splitter as kind of a periscope that helps bring one camera closer to the other.

What’s unique about what we did with the HVX cameras, is, well, it’s that we did it with two HVX cameras and two cinema adaptors. We took tools that most independent film makers invested in a few years ago and repurposed them for a new medium. We’re saying that any two people that have HVX or Sony EX cameras can get together and make a 3D movie, with all the equipment costs already covered, save the mount and a little bit of work to make a trigger that signals both cameras to start and stop at the same time.

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