Special+Effects

When filming a black and white film, use chocolate sauce for blood. It drips nicely and you can't tell it isn't blood from the color. Use lots of shadows and eerie music to set the scene.
 * Black and White horror film:**

Any home-made fight scene can be imporved with special effects. With any movie editing program these can be created. Special effects are not only super slow motion bullet scenes or the such, but can be a simple as sound effects. A simple sound library can be used to paste in punching sounds, painful yells, and broken bones. These put into the film at the right sequencing in a fight can make all the difference. Another way to improve your special effect fight scene is to choreograph. Even the simplest choreography combined with slowing down the fight scene (when filming) and then speeding it up in the editing program can make a ghetto fight become professional.
 * Ghetto yet effective ways to have special effects - Lefferts**

//**REALISTIC HEAD JAB**// Filming a fight scene with kids can be frustrating. Children can have a hard time focusing, and it is difficult to film “realistic” fake fighting without them hurting themselves. After all, unlike the movies, you don’t have a fight choreographer nor do your kids have stunt doubles. Given these limitations, there are still several great fighting moves that your kids can perform with a simple camcorder. One of these is the "head jab," or a realistic hit to the head. This effect works because your camcorder only captures film in two dimensions. We can use this lack of depth perception to trick the camera ...Place both fighters facing each other. Move one of the fighters several steps away from the camera. Because the camera has no depth perception, it still looks like they are facing one another, though they are not. Have your distant fighter “attack” the near fighter by jabbing his stick into the air where his opponent’s head would be. Likewise, instruct the victim to react as if hit in the head. Because the attacker is stabbing his stick "behind the head" (relative to the camera) there is no actual head-stick physical contact ... and your children will remain unscathed to fight another day. This effect looks very realistic, especially if you add a punch noise sound effect with the attack. Your kids can stab and react with much gusto because they aren't actually hitting each other. You can have your fighters poke each other in many different “virtual” body parts … including the stomach, face, and the very popular groin shot.
 * Camera Tricks- Katrina Lim**

//**WIRE FU!**// (Won-Young)

Seen in many places such as really old kung fu movies and most recently and ravishly done in the "Matrix". The famous "flying in the air" effect is achived in mainly two differnt ways. On a live set, wires are hooked onto a harness which is put on the actor. The wires are intracately placed on pullies that allow to actor to defy gravity. The concept yet simple. is very conplicated. Getting the Timing right and pulling with enough force is crucial in making the scene complete. Not only that but the actor has to be able to do the right motions at the precise time and do it with almost perfect timing. Although it my seem simple. it is a very hard and long task. Another way to achive the same effect. Used more recently is to use a greed screen on a closed set. where the wires are green and can be unnoticed. Unlike the livewire setting where they have to be removed during post production. this allow greater flexablilty for the production team to create more and more intracate effects.

//**THE MATRIX WALL RUN**// Here's a really funny gymnastic effect. One of your fighters will run along a wall in order to get behind his opponent. You might have seen similar effects done by Jackie Chan or an extreme version of this in the movie “Matrix.” All you need for this effect is a wall to run on and a chair. Establish your shot by showing both fighters facing each other. Then, have your runner run toward the wall and try to leap onto it feet first. Obviously, your kids aren't going to be able to do this, and they’ll probably just hit the wall with their feet and slide back down to the ground. That’s OK … we'll cut that part out. Next, place a chair or stool next to the wall, and have your kid lay on it sideways, so that his feet are touching the wall. Mount your camcorder so you can film his feet and legs as they scuttle across the wall.Finally, film your wall runner coming off the wall and turning back into a fighting position.When you edit these three clips together, it looks very realistic. This is one of the funniest effects and always gets a laugh from audiences.

//**THE MID-AIR COLLISION**// If you've ever watched Saturday morning cartoons or a fighting movie like “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon”, there’s always a fighting scene where two opponents fly through the air with swords drawn, attack each other in mid-air, before falling to the ground and recovering. In the movies this flying effect is done with supporting guy wires, but you can simulate this special effect in your own backyard. Have your opponents run toward each other waving their weapons.Mount your camera on the ground, and instruct each kid to run and jump OVER the camera. Now, film the kids jumping past each other.And finally, film each kid hitting the ground, rolling, and standing up. When you edit it all together, you get a great mid-air clash. You can accentuate the actual point of contact, with a sword-clang sound effect. You could even put a few frames of white at the point of contact, as if the impact created a flash of light.

Science Fiction: Mrs. Cassinelli
Science Fictions films use a lot of special effects to make them unique
 * monsters
 * aliens
 * in the future
 * supernatural
 * special powers

Action Movies: Shannon
Action movies also use special effects in their productions
 * gun scenes - the actors can't ACTUALLY get hurt or killed in the movie. Instead, they use special effects to make it look as though the character got hit and bleeds.
 * It is physically impossible for somebody to crash through a window and land without a scratch on them. So how do the actors do it? They use a special kind of "glass" which is basically a sugary substance packed into a glass-like shape.
 * Explosions are edited in after the movie is created. The expressions and the actions the character makes, while it looks real, is actually just what they do - acting.

Horror Films- Julie
Many horror films include these to evoke fear in viewers.
 * Zombies
 * Vampires
 * Ghosts
 * Gross looking monsters
 * Evil stuff
 * Darkness
 * Nighttime

Types of Special effects in Movies:
Brittany Balbag

Special effects are traditionally divided into two types. The first type is special effects where you manipulate photographed images. This can be produced either with photographic or visual technology. Like an optical printer or CGI. An example of an optical effect is depicting the USS Enterpise flying through space. Fun Fact: CGI was used to remove Lieutenant Dan’s legs in Forrest Gump. The second type is mechanical effect (practical or physical effects) which you do during live-action shooting. Examples are mechanized props, scenery, and pyrotechnics. Examples are the ejector seat of James Bond’s Aston Martin, R2D2 in Star Wars, or the zero-gravity effects employed in 2001: Space Odyssey.

Andrew Peekema There are several easy special effects that can be done without any fancy equipment
 * Moves:**
 * Close sword block – get the sword as close to hitting the other person as you want, and then aggressively pull back. During editing, run the clip backwards.
 * Blocked knife – have the scene set up so both actors are shot in the same clip, then remove the one that is blocking the knife from the shot and from the area. Then, have the attacker throw the knife where the defender use to be. After that, have the blocker already have the knife stuck in whatever they are blocking with and remove it either with a piece of fishing line or a hand out of the shot. Play it backwards, and you have a blocked knife throw.
 * The Force – throw whatever you are catching, and then play it backwards.


 * Some simple filming techniques:**
 * Brittany Balbag**


 * Forced perspective: an optical illusion technique to make objects appear farther, close, larger or smaller than they actually are. A classic example of this is in an action/adventure movie with dinosaurs. A miniature dinosaur model is put close to the camera to make it look big to the viewer. Force Perspective was used in the Lord of the Rings. Actors would stand at different depths from the camera to make the actors who played hobbits and dwarves seem small.
 * Whip pan is a type of pan shot in which the camera moves sideways really quick so that the picture blurs into distinct streaks. You can use this technique as a transition or idicate the passing of time or a frenetic pace of action.
 * A stop trick is when an object is filmed, then while the camera is off, the object is moved out of the camera shot, then the camera is turned back on. When the film is watched it seems to the viewer that object disappears.
 * A dutch angle tilt is film technique used to portray the view of someone who is psychologically uneasy. This can be acheived by tilting the camera off to the side so that the shot is composed with the horizon unparallel with the bottom of the frame.

- green/blue screen, in-camera effects, optical effect, motion control photography, digital compositing, Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) - the special effects artists trace the material with a shot, and the program follows it throughout the clip. - the animal characters in the movie is also considered special effects - Disney, Warner Bros - In //Forrest Gump//, blue screen was used to combined Tom Hanks with the President John F. Kennedy - CGI played a big role in the movie //Titanic//, the ship sinking would not have been looked real without this technique. They made a small version of the ship and filmed it sinking.
 * how to make special effect (Lisa Jeon)**