American Cinematographer - August 2008 - (Page 58) An Eye-Popping A team of top pros creates 3-D images for the adventure Journey to the Center of the Earth. by Stephanie Argy Unit photography by Sebastian Raymond 58 August 2008 Adventure -D is easy,” jokes Ed W. Marsh, the visual-effects editor and 3-D consultant on Journey to the Center of the Earth. “It’s making the same movie perfectly, twice, with one of them approximately 2 inches to the left of the other.” In recent years, stereoscopic filmmaking (stereo, for short) has been used mainly for special-venue films, concert films and animated features. The team behind Journey to the Center of the Earth, led by director Eric Brevig and cinematograph- “3 er Chuck Schuman, quickly learned that making a full-length fictional stereo feature required some new ideas about the technology, including how it impacts on-set staffing and the postproduction workflow. “We were driving the car at full speed, hoping the road would be built by the time we got there,” says Brevig. A PG-rated adventure film, Journey tells the story of a college professor (played by Brendan Fraser) in search of his long-lost brother, a research scientist who dis-
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