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  2. Matte (filmmaking) - Wikipedia

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    The film is loaded and projected onto a piece of glass that has been painted first black, then white. The matte artist decides where the matte line will be and traces it on the glass, then paints in the background or scenery to be added. Once the painting is finished the matte artist scrapes away the paint on the live action portions of the ...

  3. Matte painting - Wikipedia

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    A matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that is not present at the filming location. Historically, matte painters and film technicians have used various techniques to combine a matte-painted image with live-action footage (compositing ...

  4. Video matting - Wikipedia

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    The matte can serve as a binary mask, defining which of the image parts are visible. In a more complicated case it enables smooth blending of the images, the alpha matte is used as the transparency map of the top image. Film production has known alpha matting since the very creation of filmmaking. The mattes were drawn by hand.

  5. Matte - Wikipedia

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    Matte (filmmaking), filmmaking and video production technology; Matte painting, a process of creating sets used in film and video; Matte box, a camera accessory for controlling lens glare; Open matte, a filming technique that involves matting out the top and bottom of the film frame in the movie projector

  6. Sodium vapor process - Wikipedia

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    The main element is the regular color negative film insensitive to sodium light and the other a fine-grain black-and-white film that is extremely sensitive to the specific wavelength produced by the sodium vapor. [5] This second film element is used to create a matte, as well as a counter-matte, for use during compositing on an optical printer.

  7. Williams process - Wikipedia

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    The Williams process relies on the properties of film. Firstly, the actors were filmed in front of a black background—although white or blue backgrounds were used later—and that was printed on high contrast film several times until a copy known as the holdout matte was achieved, which showed the black silhouette of the actors over a completely white background.

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  9. Open matte - Wikipedia

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    Open matte is a filming technique that involves matting out the top and bottom of the film frame in the movie projector (known as a soft matte) for the widescreen theatrical release and then scanning the film without a matte (at Academy ratio) for a full screen home video release. It is roughly equivalent to an uncropped version of the film.