A HISTORY OF SPECIAL EFFECTS S G 5 U 5 READING

A HISTORY OF SPECIAL EFFECTS S G 5 U 5 READING

1. What do you know about early film production?

2. What do you know about special effects?

(paragraph 1)

The Lumière brothers made the first film. (true)

The first film had no special effects. (false—Special effects were used to make people think a train was coming straight toward them.)

(paragraph 2)

George Méliès discovered the “stop trick” by accident. (true) The “stop trick”

made it look like people and things in the film changed into someone or something else. (true)

Other filmmakers were not interested in the “stop trick” technique. (false—Filmmakers have used tricks like this since then.)

(paragraph 3

) King Kong was the name of an animal. (true)

The gorilla looked big in the film but was really very small. (true)

(paragraph 4)

George Lucas was a very innovative filmmaker with new ideas. (true)

The special effects crew of Star Wars used old techniques and technology. (false—They invented new techniques and made improvements in effects technology.)

A computer-controlled camera was used in the Star Wars film to create scenes with realistic motion. (true)

(paragraph 5)

Special effects nowadays are different because of computers. (true)

People study Toy Story and Avatar because of their special effects. (true)

The comic book Spiderman comes from the film of the same name. (false—The film comes from the comic book of the same name.)