Creating Special Effects for TV and Video, 3rd Edition

Photographs on the Screen

 

In property making, model building and even costume embellishment, photographs may be used to effect substantial economies. Cut out and mounted they can be used to simulate all sorts of objects where the camera is unlikely to reveal the fact that they are only two-dimensional.

Model shots

Cut-out photographs often suffice for quick and easy miniatures. In fact they often possess a quality that the most painstaking model maker would find difficult to achieve.

For night shots the original photos should be taken in flat light to avoid give-away shadows. Where it is required to show the light coming from different directions (e.g. where the same model is being used for day and night shots or where a building is to be ...