Definition of Special Effects

We understand by special effects those elements that are used in the movie theater or on television to generate characters, environments, situations or realities that cannot happen in real life and that must be added to the filming traditional. Special effects are mainly used in movies or series of the gender from Science fiction, although today many things and elements are also considered special effects and added to films such as comedies, dramas or horror or suspense films.

The realization Special effects can be carried out in two main ways: manually or technologically. While the first of the two is no longer used as much as it requires a greater amount of time, the second is more common although, due to the important infrastructure technology that it usually requires can mean much more expense and investment. However, many films combine both since, depending on the director or filmmakers, each scene, character or situation can be solved in a better way with one of these two ways. When we talk about manual special effects we refer, for example, to fictional characters such as monsters that are made by hand. Technological special effects are always through the use of computers and through the generation of graphics or animations.

Special effects can add a lot to a story that might not otherwise be achievable. When it comes to science fiction films, special effects play a very important role and are present both in the sound, in the animations, in the Photography, in the design of the environments, in the characters, etc. However, special effects such as sounds, funny or specific animations, the image and many others can also appear in comedies, dramas, war movies or terror.