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blue-screen

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blue-screen
Adjective
relating to a film technique in which actors are filmed against a blue screen so that special effects can be added later


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When used skillfully, blue-screen imaging lends perceptual credence to fantasy; when used poorly (as it frequently is in basic-cable talk shows, corporate motivational videos, and local-news weather reports) it gives rise to a grab bag of optical anomalies--absence of parallax, actors with halos around their bodies--that add up to a uniquely dismal visual vernacular.
4 -- 5) Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law did all their acting against a blue-screen background in ``Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,'' where robots attack zeppelins, below, in a past that somehow escaped World War II.
The bundle includes eZeMatte, eZeScreen and eZeClip which allow iMovie users to add images, borders, frames, themes, logos, movies, blue-screen and picture-in-picture effects to iMovie clips.
 
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