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I’m sure you all heard of the Hannah Montana 3D concert movie and also the Jonas Brothers 3D Concert movie. If you haven’t basically they turned the live concerts into a 3D movie. All the concerts were sold out and showings in the first week in theaters were sold out or close to being sold out. In future years I believe more music artists will too turn their concerts into movies. This would allow many people to see sold out concerts on the big screen. Also it would allow people that cannot afford to buy tickets to the live concerts. The down side is you don’t get the feel of being at a live concert. Will ticket sales of the live concerts go down?
Artists have been releasing their concerts on video/DVD for years. The difference with the Hannah Montana thing was the 3-D effect. When the new Linkin Park CD came out (was that two years ago?), they were doing a concert in some little club in NYC and broadcasting it live to different movie theaters around the country. That was cool. Granted it wasn’t as cool when I saw 10 rows behind the pit at Projekt Revolution at the Tweeter Center. However, the viewing the movie theater was cheaper than lawn seats with less drunken, sweaty guys.
ReplyDeleteI agree we might see more of these 3-D concerts but 3-D movies of concerts are not the same as going to a concert. Its totally taking away from the experience. The more of these post I read, the less I'm liking technologies potential uses.
ReplyDeleteI think this will really only be useful for bands/sings like The Jonas Brothers or Hannah Montana. Like Andrew said, seeing a 3D-movie is not the same as a concert. Most people go to a concert for the full experience, and I can't imagine going to see a movie of a concert, even if it is 3D. It just seems like a waste of time and money. Again, for tweens who just want to see a lip singing pop star jump up and down on stage, sure, it will work, but for anything more than that just seems a bit silly.
ReplyDeleteI have never been in a concert much less in a 3D-movie but I like this idea because a person can attend and pay less money then the regular concerts. I hear some concerts are very expensive sometimes even too expensive. But there are people that do pay the money because they love it and because they can afford it.
ReplyDeletei like this its very different, but there still is nothing like the real thing
ReplyDeleteI've had the pleasure of seeing Jamie Hewlett's media experiment/rock band/animated characters "The Gorillaz" live on more than three occasions, and it was the first to pioneer this method.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing that he foresaw the future and made more genuine feeling performers out of cartoons and 3D graphics than the mindless pablum passed off as enriched cultural experiences of Hannah Montana.