Michael Jackson's "This Is It," to bePresented In Theaters Around The World
LONGWOOD,Fla., Nov. 6 /PINKSHEETS/ -- 3D Eye Solutions, Inc. (Pink Sheets: TDEY- News)is pleased to announce that the Company has been retained to provide 3Dconversion for the Michael Jackson "This Is It" concert tour. Thetribute film was released exclusively for a special, limited, two-weekengagement worldwide on October 28th.
"ThisIs It" was produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jacksonand drawn from hundreds of hours of rehearsal and behind-the-scenes footage,captured in high definition with state of the art digital sound as the latesinger was preparing for his concert series in London. The film, which offersselect sequences in 3D, provides a unique career retrospective and featuresinterviews with some of Jackson's closest friends and creative collaborators.
There'sbeen much talk and praise surrounding the Sony film title, "MichaelJackson's This Is It," as it gives audiences a glimpse of the MichaelJackson tour that never was. The film also provides audiences a look at theonly completed portion of Michael Jackson's creative vision for the tour, aseries of short films and visual effects segments produced by acclaimed mediacreator and founder of Stimulated, Inc., Robb Wagner.
In thedays following the untimely death of Michael Jackson, rumors swirled about aclandestine film operation headed by Michael Jackson known as "The DomeProject." The Dome Project was a working title coined by Wagner for aseries of short films and visual effects segments intended to be part ofJackson's "This Is It" concert tour. The tour was to commence with a50-show run at London's O2 Dome, which led Wagner to come up with the title.
Stimulated,Inc., Wagner's Burbank, CA media production company, was handpicked by KennyOrtega, AEG and Jackson to produce the film and video elements for the tour.Wagner was appointed as Producer of The Dome Project, with Jackson and Ortegaserving as Executive Producers.
Wagnercalled on veteran Visual Effects Supervisor Bruce Jones to direct. Of theplanned 25 song set list for the show, 16 songs were to have a film or videoelement. "Thriller," "Earth Song" and "SmoothCriminal," were each to have highly developed short films produced for usein conjunction with the live performances. Two of those three were to beproduced in stereographic 3D, a groundbreaking effort.
Thefilms were to be presented on a 90 foot by 30 foot LED screen directly behindthe concert stage. The screen was innovative, and would have been the first ofits kind, treating concert audiences to a 3D experience.
Wagnerexplains the creative concept for how the films were to work in the concerts:"MJ's plan for the shows was to present short films in 3D. The audiencewould be cued to put on 3D glasses. Then, at a certain point in each film, liveaction would unfold on the stage. All of the characters in the film, even theprops, would leave the screen and emerge onstage. The story in the film wouldcontinue as a theatrical concert performance. MJ called that the '4th'dimension."
3D EyeSolutions was hired by Stimulated, Inc., "For the dream sequence in EarthSong, Michael wanted to show the world as imagined by a little girl. Heenvisioned beautiful images dancing in her head from exotic locationsthroughout the globe. When we began production we immediately knew that it wasnot going to be practical for our budget or our schedule so we enlisted theservices of 3D Eye Solutions to convert stock footage from 2D to 3D. They wereable to turn over the work very quickly and adapt to the creative changes thatcame down pipe. Without them we would have never made our delivery for theconcert or the film," stated Todd Cogan, 3D Producer/Stereographer,Stimulated, Inc.
"Thisfilm is a tribute to an artist who created excitement every moment he was onstage. We are thrilled and honored to have worked with such a creative groupand to have our work displayed to the millions of Michael Jackson fansworldwide," stated Mike Gibilisco, CEO of 3D Eye Solutions, Inc.
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