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1. Spiderman climbs up the side of a high building, Buffy kills an ugly vampire, Gollums jumps
into a volcano. Amazing scenes like these are not real, they are the work of special effects
teams.
2. Make-up artists can make actors look ill or tired and create new characters. In the old days,
they used artificial teeth, ears, and hair to create frightening monsters. Now they build
completely new faces so the vampires in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer are very different from those
in old horror films. And getting ready is often tiring. For some the actors in Buffy, it took four or
five hours to put on their make up!
3. There are other special effects, for example, trick photography. How big was the famous
spaceship in the first Star Wars film (1977)? It was really only a sixty centimetre model!
Directors still use trick photography today. Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings
(2001), used children dressed as hobbits in some scenes to make the characters smaller than
the others.
4.The most interesting change recently is the use of computers. In Spiderman 2 (2004), the
buildings look great but they are only “virtual”buildings. And in The Lord of the Rings,one of the
best characters is Gollum but again, he is not real. The actor wore special clothes connected to a
computer. The computer recorded him and produced images of Gollum’s body. After that, they
used the actor’s real eyes and real voice to create a totally lifelike character!