{"id":16267,"date":"2023-03-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plainenglish.com\/?post_type=lingo&p=16267"},"modified":"2024-04-24T19:48:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T00:48:58","slug":"special-effects","status":"publish","type":"lingo","link":"https:\/\/plainenglish.com\/lingo\/special-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Special effects"},"content":{"rendered":"
“Special effects” are the computer-generated images in movies that show things that filmmakers can’t film directly. For example, Jurassic Park was about dinosaurs; since dinosaurs don’t exist (anymore!), the moviemakers had to use computer-generated special effects to create the images of the dinosaurs.<\/p>\n
Movies like Terminator used special effects to create villains; in “Independence Day” they used special effects to portray aliens attacking the earth.<\/p>\n
In “Titanic,” the special effects were used to make a movie about historical events look more realistic. For the movie, they did not re-create the ship. But they used computer images to portray people walking on the ship. The actual ship in filming was a small model. Other special effects were used to show the waves in the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
‘Special effects’ are computer-generated images in a movie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":22582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"terminology_category":[124],"lesson_number":[2139],"keywords":[824,2141],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n