Below you will find example sentences with "special effects". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Special Effects in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: effects
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 24
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 11 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "special effects" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 27 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as distinction between special effects and visual, also added special effects to its, visual, production and practical stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with special counsel, side effects, special education, side effects and visual effects, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with special effects
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Special effects are traditionally divided into the categories of optical effects and mechanical effects. (14 words)
McDonald's also added special effects to its blocks on "Jump," including sound effects. (14 words)
Special effects were created using almost all formats, including model work, CGI and practical effects. (15 words)
It has also encouraged within the industry a greater distinction between special effects and visual effects ; the latter is used to characterize post-production and optical work, while special effects refers more often to on-set and mechanical effects. (39 words)
Their department includes all cosmetic makeup, body makeup and if special effects are involved, the key make-up artist will consult with a special effects makeup team to create all prosthetics and SFX makeup in a production. (37 words)
But what really establishes as the absolute pinnacle of contemporary special effects spectacle is its creative, death-defying practical stunt work, which Miller says made up 90 percent of the effects used in the film. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
It has also encouraged within the industry a greater distinction between special effects and visual effects ; the latter is used to characterize post-production and optical work, while special effects refers more often to on-set and mechanical effects.
With the emergence of digital filmmaking a distinction between special effects and visual effects has grown, with the latter referring to digital post-production while "special effects" referring to mechanical and optical effects.
Live special effects Spinning fiery steel wool at night Live special effects are effects that are used in front of a live audience, mostly during sporting events, concerts and corporate shows.
With PowerDirector, you get special effects editing, audio editing with fade effects and voice-overs, mask tools, video collage effects, picture-in-picture, and blue screen or green screen for editing background environments.
Special effects are traditionally divided into the categories of optical effects and mechanical effects.
Special effects This department oversees the mechanical effects—also called practical or physical effects —that create optical illusions during live-action shooting.
Background color Demonstration of the creation of special effects techniques utilizing chroma key Blue is generally used for both weather maps and special effects because it is complementary to human skin tone.
Their department includes all cosmetic makeup, body makeup and if special effects are involved, the key make-up artist will consult with a special effects makeup team to create all prosthetics and SFX makeup in a production.
Featuring Kung Fu sound effects and a score that sounds like it belongs in an Umberto Lenzi film, Ikeda’s gory fever dream sometimes feels like a Giallo featuring special effects from Rob Bottin.
There's no sound to go off of, there's no special effects, there's no practical effects, there's no man in a monster suit or anything.
Production design and special effects are again at the forefront of the film’s strengths, and it won Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Editing.
The special effects are truly impressive, and you can really tell that Director Damien Leone made extensive use of practical effects to make the horror really come alive.
But what really establishes as the absolute pinnacle of contemporary special effects spectacle is its creative, death-defying practical stunt work, which Miller says made up 90 percent of the effects used in the film.
McDonald's also added special effects to its blocks on "Jump," including sound effects.
British special effects technicians and production designers are known for creating visual effects at a far lower cost than their counterparts in the US, as seen in Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985).
Effects company Industrial Light & Magic rushed to complete the film's special effects in less than five months.
Retrieves 11 January 2015 The visual effects company Framestore in London has produced some of the most critically acclaimed special effects in modern film.
Special effects were created using almost all formats, including model work, CGI and practical effects.
The broad term "special effects" includes all the techniques here, but more commonly there are two categories of effects.
Rest is Hollywood, special effects that feel special once in a while, and a franchise that needs to let sleeping creatures lie.