Friday, March 5, 2010

How do they DO that?

Have you ever wondered how exactly movies make actors appear bigger or smaller than they really are? Such as the Hobbits in the Lord of the Rings series? Well, its actually called Forced Perspective. It's all about tricking your depth perception! For example, this picture looks like it's a guy with a tiny wife! He appears to be dribbling her like a basketball!
Of course in real life there is no way one person could be that much bigger than the other person. It's all about Forced Perspective...

Leave your comments and let me know what you think! What other movies use this approach? Can you try and duplicate this on your next video project? Does this spark an ingenious ideas??? I look forward to hearing from you...

3 comments:

jahangir hussain said...

good article. tells u how movies make actors appear bigger or smaller than they really are.

Anonymous said...

I never would have figured that she was far back I thought that it was just a little girl because she was so small.


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jesse bodner said...

are we going to do something like this in class because it looks hard to do and it would be fun you would of never thought that it was just the angle that mades it look like that