Interesting Projection Technique...three wall cinema!

David Jimerson said:
Well, that's kinda like Cinerama.
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Cinerama is three cameras, but played back as a seamless large image in front of you. This thing is projected on the side walls of the theater so it's 270 degrees around you. Action happens in your peripheral vision.
BTW, I'm heading over to the Cinerama tomorrow...yes Seattle has one of the two remaining Cineramas.
 
Rather primitive.

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Andrius Simutis said:
This looks like an interesting, if gimmicky, way to increase the immersive feel of movies.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...movies-projecting-them-in-270-degrees/280471/
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No way to know without experiencing it but it just looks distracting. Personally, I"m not sure you can improve on the current 2d Imax movie experience. I don't want picture window 3d, I don't want more walls of motion picture, I will take 3d if it's going to be campy and things are flying out of the screen at me, but otherwise no improvements are necessary on a great big screen with a good picture on it. Maybe the curved screens will be cool.
 
Just like 3D, it'd take several years and some early-adopters who really know their s--t (James Cameron) to get this to somewhere that it's NOT just a gimmick.

That said, this really does offer a whole plethora of opportunities to experiment and provoke the audience with new stimuli. Imagine the iconic chase scene from The French Connection, only now you feel like you're in the car because the support pillars for the tracks above, and the other vehicles on the road are both whipping past you at 70, 80 miles per hour on the side screens.

Imagine watching some Insidious-like horror, and you're focused on the characters in front of you, and it takes you a moment to notice something watching you from a side-screen.

Sometimes even gimmicks can be used effectively when the filmmakers dare to be bold (give this to guys like Lynch, Herzog, Jarmusch and see what they come up with).

On the other hand, using this platform, you're really cutting off your own feet in the DVD release. This could be a blessing or a curse: it could drive people to see the movie in theaters, if only to see what all the fuss is about (alternatively, and probably more likely, you'd have a lot of people who scoff and refuse to go see a movie they might have otherwise gone to).

My initial thought is that this won't make it very far, but that's what everyone thought about 3D all those years ago.
 
Andrius Simutis said:
This thing is projected on the side walls of the theater so it's 270 degrees around you. Action happens in your peripheral vision.
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Add that technique to a movie like Gravity, which uses sound as an immersive aspect of the movie. They describe how the dialog was panned to follow the actors and how the music has been composed and mixed to suits the surround sound systems, to create a more disorientation to the viewer. They explain it more precisely around 4:30:
 
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