Happy couple's big day is captured in groundbreaking 3D

Published on Wednesday 19 May 2010 11:38

FOR most couples the wedding video is a key part of the big day, but for Edinburgh's Kerry and Hamish Allison it has taken on an extra dimension.

• Scott Marshall and Gavin Livingstone used six cameras to film Hamish and Kerry's big day

Hamish, 36, decided to have the wedding filmed in 3D as a surprise for 39-year-old Kerry.

The couple believe it may be a world first.

Hamish said: "It was a surprise for Kerry because she thought we were getting the wedding filmed normally.

"We didn't talk about it until we were getting the photos taken afterwards, I asked if she had seen the cameras and it was then that I told her. She thought it was a really cool thing to do.

"The cameras weren't that off-putting because you're caught up in the emotion."

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Hamish is the managing director of production and post-production company Freakworks in Leith.

The company produces and edits commercials and corporate work and is the first production company in Scotland to offer 3D production and editing facilities.

Hamish said: "I spend so much time at work thinking about 3D, the idea just sort of fell on from that naturally.

"Nobody else in Scotland is filming and editing in 3D, and we have been doing it for a year now.

"I thought we could film and edit the wedding in 3D, and keep it for the future.

"What more could any new bride want than the most in-depth, picture perfect memory of their big day?

"We watch the footage now and it's like we're right back there at our own wedding every time."

Six high-definition cameras, operated by Hamish's Freakworks colleagues Scott Marshall and Gavin Livingstone filmed the ceremony at Currie Kirk on 1 May.

Hamish said: "There were three pairs of two cameras and in each pair there was one camera pointing forward, and one pointing down the way which was filming a mirror image.

"In order to create a 3D image you need to have two images – one replacing what is your left eye and one replacing what is your right eye.

"If you use them both together, the image becomes 3D.

"The main difference with 3D filming is that everything involves two cameras rather than one."

There was of course an element of surprise among the couple's 160 guests, with Hamish adding that there were "a few questions from guests asking what the big cameras were for".

Hamish, who is currently enjoying his honeymoon in Fornalutx in the north of Majorca, has already seen snippets of the film and plans to edit it during the summer.

He added: "It's really good, we will have it as a video file to watch until the new 3D Blu-ray DVDs come out."