A history of visual effects

A history of visual effects:

I decided that I should research the history and progression of visual effects, in order to establish popular effects in the media and what ones could be used in my sequence.

I watched a video on YouTube that showed different clips of visual effects (e.g. green screen chroma keying) that changed technology, the way movies were made and how they made a statement to society.



This research into the history of visual effects has helped me learn the possibilities of augmenting reality in my sequence and how it could advertise, emphasise and draw attention to certain features in a sequence.

I recognised a lot of visual effects in the clips through seeing the clips myself during my childhood/recently, and have learnt how to create various visual effects in Sony Vegas and Adobe After Effects, due to studying Media Studies for four years. How ever, I have decided to re-acquaint myself with tutorials on-line, in order to learn how to combine these effects with 3-d models/2-d photographs.