Girl Power! How a Fifteen Year Old Disney Singer Launched An Industry There is a little part of Los Angeles called Burbank which manages to have two of the world’s three most prominent authorities on making 3-D HD, the other one is only a few miles away in Van Nuys – they are Pace, 3ality and Paradise FX. 3ality is a company you may have already heard of as they were the acquisition and post company involved with U2 3D the only other digital 3-D concert film and one which has not earned nearly as much as Hannah Montana. Paradise FX were heavily involved with a digital 3-D film called Dark Country interesting for the fact that it was shot with two RED ONE cameras when that camera wasn’t doing a lot. The Hannah Montana concert film had one thing which U2 couldn’t replicate, she had just come off a 54 date US tour and her stock was high in the public eye especially the 10-15 year old variety. The idea was to shoot a couple of the concerts and then post produce as quickly as possible for release early in the new year. Vince Pace was recruited for the acquisition but ended up Exec Producing the show, more of that later. First Vince recalls how Miley and her people saw the concert going. Vince Pace: “They didn’t know that the 3-D success story was already there. Miley as an individual and her manager were saying ‘Oh great! You want to do this 3-D movie – but step back while we do our concert’. Picking up some of those moments in the concert were just great. She was giving those looks to whoever was there. I made a comment when we were posting that this really isn’t about the 3-D, this is her singing her ballad about her grandfather on the track Missing You and stuff like that. So it’s really not about the 3-D. When I watched the song, I said to myself ‘It’s all about the 3-D’, when she ends that and sings that last note, she’s right there. It was all about the 3-D because she just looks so real being there, saying something. Phil Streather: The way that you are converging on that Hannah shot, in fact, virtually everything that is remotely interesting is in front of the screen. Just by a little bit. You know, it’s bulging! It’s got this presence and then every now and then someone throws a guitar pick – I thought that this drum stick bounce was very cool. Vince Pace: That was interesting also for me because I’m the guy who shoots realism – right? – and we had that trick and it comes into the camera, then we enhanced it a little bit with our tools. Actually, we always wanted to make it look real, but no, we wanted to make it look fun. It was a carry-over. What we did was we transitioned, so we just hung it a little bit. Because in the slow motion effect we didn’t have all the frames, but it was perfectly done. Phil Streather: And it looks like a real stick. It almost just about breaks free as well so it’s not too neat. Page 2 "Hannah Montana was a much better experience than the U2 concert."