Additional workload evaluation of a stereoscopic film production, based on a case study comparison of a classical monoscopic commercial production

The change of technologies and digital improvement in the film industry has made it possible to apply new media content to film. Digital cinema is providing the audience with a new dimension of film experience. By adding the feature to screen movies in stereoscopic1 mode, the audience is taken into the scenery itself. Nowadays stereoscopic films are a standard at cinemas, but there is a significant change for the filmmaking industry. Stereoscopic films have to be produced also in a stereoscopic way, which affects and restricts the common work of filmmaking people. This work provides the reader with fundamental knowledge about stereoscopy. This work points out the additional workload if a common production will be produced in the stereoscopic way. Thus the reader is able to estimate the extra workload for a stereoscopic production and knows where the daily work will be restricted. 1 Stereoscopic designates the spatial visual cognition of the world surrounding the viewer.