Mystery Workshop!

The mystery workshop in class ended up being a workshop on 3D video which I thought was really cool. I never knew how 3D was made or anything about how it worked and now I do. I guess I never really thought about it before but I had no idea that two camera were used. I don’t know if I thought it was a special camera or what but I thought it was really cool that you could just take two of the same cameras and set them up with the same settings and everything and then overlay the two images in post production. It was really interesting watching the whole process from setting up the cameras to putting the images together in the edit lab and making one red and one blue, to finally getting to view the final product wearing our glasses and getting to actually see what we had shot appear in 3D.

It was interesting too watching it all come together in post, from lining up the images to making sure they weren’t too close or too far apart. And then we had to give one of the images a red tint and the other a blue tint to work with the glasses that we made, or work with any 3D glasses really.

Everything had to be so specific though, making sure the cameras were the same and setting them up exactly beside each other, making sure they were on the same level and then having to make sure the images were on the same horizontal plane when editing them together so it would come out the right way. You also had to play around with how close to put the images together so that when wearing the glasses it would in fact appear 3D and not off, in which case it looked similar to when you were not wearing the glasses with it being obvious that there were actually two images.

I thought it was crazy too that you had to have such a long depth of field to do it too. We filmed down one of the hallways and we never had to change focus or anything while people were moving.

We also got to make 3D glasses too which was pretty cool. I mean, who doesn’t love crafting? And I also never thought about 3D glasses before we made them either. We had to pick out specific colors of red and blue and those were the ones that would work the best. Then we had to make sure that they were on the right side and everything. Whenever ive gone to a 3D movie or anything, you just are given the glasses. You don’t even think about the fact that they there are different options for the shades of red and blue, you just go with what they give you.

I also really enjoyed getting to watch our final projects on a big screen instead of just watching it while it was being edited in the lab on the computer screen. I thought it was interesting though that you had to be directly in front of it for it to work. You couldn’t be to one side or the other because then the image appearing 3D wouldn’t work right.