Matte Paintings Research
Matte paintings ate painted landscapes, Set or non-existent
environments. These paintings allow the filmmakers to create a false
sense of location in which would be hard to build, visit or film in due
to tight budget funds normally found when creating a film. even today
with Blockbuster film budgets over $250 million
In the past, matte painters and film technicians have used a range of
different techniques to combine the painted image with the live footage.
The effect created by this is therefore a seamless and flowing clip.
Matte paintings were originally and traditionally made using paints and
pastels on large sheets of glass. As far as known, the first known matte
paintings were shown and used in 1907.
Traditional matte paintings were used in the wizard of Oz (The emerald
city), Citizen Kane (Kane's Xanadu) and Star wars episode IV: a new
hope (Tractor beam set.)
In the 1980s however, technology started to take off with the growing
speed of computer graphic programmes and as a result, matte paintings
were therefore normally made digitally. As far as we know, Die Hard 2:
Die Harder was the first film to use digitally composite footage.
Matte paintings are used these days to cut down on the filming cost or the location being to
expensive of impossible to photograph live.
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