3D experience

I had fun with the 3D film for class. Although I don't have any experience shooting 3D it was fun to see a ghetto version of how they do it in Hollywood.  Our prompt was to make a sea monster porno / commercial. Our idea was to create a Godzilla-like environment where the monster could walk through and destroy a few buildings. He would then find a building and start having sex with it (the monster would have a raging hard-on). Then after banging the building the monster would drink a giant beer that randomly appears. After finishing the beer the monster would fall asleep due to exhaustion.

I think what I enjoyed the most about the assignment was designing the sets. I'm not really a production designer and don't have much experience with that but it was fun creating a set completely out of cardboard. Creating the sets of out cardboard really reminded me of the movie, The Science of Sleep, which had dream sequences where certain things were made out of cardboard or similar material. We created a city backdrop and put that up high so that it looked like the city stretched on and on. For our set we made a bunch of buildings out of cardboard and colored in windows. We also made the entire costume out of cardboard. We made a head with a tongue sticking out and we also made eyes that kind of stick out. I made a 4 foot long tail which was attached to a belt-like piece. Chris made the wiener and I went out and spray painted it along with the spikes on the tail and back of the body.

We had a good time shooting the project. Amy was on the cameras, Chris was the sea monster, and I was a gaffer/2nd AC/whatever else we needed.  We had fairly simple lighting set-ups and we also had pretty simple camera placements. What we really focused on the most was the set and costume of the monster. The simplicity of creating something 3D was surprising to me since I figured there was a bit more to it (and I'm sure there is when you cross over into the professional 3D filmmaking world) but knowing that the cameras just needed to be placed correctly and we had to edit it together in after effects was simple enough. Overall it was a good time and I got to learn the basics for shooting a 3D movie.