P3D Re: "Feeling like you're there" movies

[Lee Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2:30 PM -0700 on 2/26/98, Marlin Linger wrote:

|I don't know who else to ask about this, but maybe someone out there knows
|the photographic conditions necessary for creating that effect you get from
|some movies when an airplane is flying through a mountain canyon or a car
|is driving down a narrow, twisty highway - it feels like you're actually in
|the airplane or car and your body wants to sway with the motion.  Is there
|a name for this effect?  Are any special condtions required to achieve it
|if you do the photography yourself?
|
|Marlin Linger
|linger.1@xxxxxxx

If you are thinking of IMAX or ShowScan then a large part of the realism
comes from the fact that the frame rate is much higher than the standard
24 f.p.s.  Also, normal film flashes reach frame twice whereas IMAX typically
flashes it four times.

>From the IMAX web page: "The IMAX image is ten times the size of a
conventional 35mm frame."  As I recall, (and I may be off on this)
IMAX film is run horizontally like VistaVision was done in the 50's.
Obviously, high resolution helps create an enhanced sense of realism.

Lee


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