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

[Peter Davis <pd@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?

I think the most important aspect of the cinematography which produces this
effect is motion.  I don't think it's possible to get this kind of
stomache-wrenching impact from a still photograph ... even a stereo one.

-pd


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