Since there are hundreds of different kinds of special effects used in movies, which tend to be mostly different kinds of camera shots, I will only go over three that made a large impact on the special effects industry and that were used in films we saw in class, specifically “The Gold Rush” staring Charlie Chaplin.

Double exposure was one of the first special effects ever conceived. It is a very simple and primitive way of creating the effect of transformation from one object to another or to make an object vanish into thin air. This effect is very simply executed. Placing your camera on a tripod is easiest. Film your first shot. Then rewind your film to where you want the transformation to occur and film your second s

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