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While "Beyond The Window" was about creating a sense of depth, "Before The Window" refers to the film's ability to have objects and characters reach into the audience and look closer than they appear. Hogwarts is such an incredible location that could have potentially been amazing to explore, but the 3D does none of that. This is often referred to as the "cardboard cutout" effect and, frankly, it looks terrible. With the exception of one scene, which I won't detail due to spoilers, the closest the film gets to depth is having a flat character stand visibly stand in front of a flat background. "Beyond The Window" refers to the former, and, unfortunately, Harry Potter doesn't use it well at all.
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When dealing with three dimensional movies, directors have the capacity to both create a sense of depth as well as moving things off of the screen towards the audience. We explain this every time we write one of these "To 3D or Not To 3D articles," so I'll do my best to keep the exposition to a minimum.
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Though the months since have been used to work on the 3D for The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the subject of the third dimension was a post-production issue, meaning that director David Yates wasn't plotting and planning shots to make best use of the medium. As for Harry Potter, you may remember a report from last year saying that plans to post-convert The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 were cancelled because they simply didn't have time to finish. For obvious reasons, movies that are planned and structured with 3D in mind tend to make better use of it. Since the re-launch of 3D post- Avatar there has been an ongoing battle between movies filmed using the new tech and those that have post-converted as a money grab.