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One-way glass (4) used in a teleprompter. A one-way mirror is typically used as an apparently normal mirror in a brightly lit room, with a much darker room on the other side. People on the brightly lit side see their own reflection—it looks like a normal mirror. People on the dark side see through it—it looks like a transparent window. The ...
An eyeline match from The Stranger (1946) between shots of Edward G. Robinson's character and a clock tower. An eyeline match is a film editing technique associated with the continuity editing system. It is based on the premise that an audience will want to see what the character on-screen is seeing.
An early example of split screen in Life of an American Fireman (1903) Patty Duke in the twin roles of identical cousins, Patty and Cathy, in the TV show The Patty Duke Show, an effect achieved by split screen. In film and video production, split screen is the visible division of the screen, traditionally in half, but also in several ...
A category for articles about creative works and technology for productions that are projected simultaneously onto multiple screens. This should not be confused with films which are projected on a single screen that use a split screen technique.
A front projection effect is an in-camera visual effects process in film production for combining foreground performance with pre-filmed background footage. In contrast to rear projection, which projects footage onto a screen from behind the performers, front projection projects the pre-filmed material over the performers and onto a highly reflective background surface.
Screen direction is the direction that actors or objects appear to be moving on the screen from the point of view of the camera or audience. A rule of film editing and film grammar is that movement from one edited shot to another must maintain the consistency of screen direction in order to avoid audience confusion.
Shot/reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character (a reverse shot or countershot). Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are ...
The conditions are relevant. Calling it a two-way mirror is wrong in exactly the same way that calling a street on which cars only travel one way a "two-way street" is wrong. "Cars can travel both ways on it if only you let them!" A two-way mirror is something that mirrors in two directions, such as a silver sheet or fully silvered glass. This ...