The History of Stereoscopy in Cinema - Text 7
Since that date, big-budget action films and a few others have been released regularly (Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, 2010, Wim Wenders’ Pina, 2011; or Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language, 2014). Certain effects are emphasized, while others are barely used. The leaping out of the screen effect, which was highlighted in advertising from the 1950s and 1980s, was almost never used in the 2010s. Instead, “falling” or “flying” through the air effects were used, or the effect of having the impression of entering a tunnel (which we might call the “vortex effect”) became very common.[7] In Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (2013) the viewer has the impression of floating in space, topsy-turvy. In Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011), the jets of water appear to splash the viewer. The stereoscopic screen plane is highlighted through “volume effects” when sparks, water bubbles or dust float in the foreground. The most common effect is that of an accentuated depth of field. This makes the imaginary cities of spectacular films more impressive, as in super-hero films, a film genre which is very partial to 3D.
