Photos Visuals for Dead by R. Palin Ringers Inspire Belief by Nora Lee The superb performance of Jeremy as twin brothers in Dead Ring¬ Irons was way by the equally superb techni¬ cal work which creates the physical optical effects supervisor for Dead Ringers. Wilson worked close¬ ly with George and John Furniotis of Film Effects of Toronto to develop illusion of twins some new ers cannot be diminished in any on the screen. Without the first, the second would have been meaningless. Without the second, the first would have been flawed. Dead Ringers is the lastest offering from Canadian director David Cronenberg. Cronenberg was attracted to the darker side of the relationship between twin brothers in this pyschological hor¬ ror story. To explore this relation¬ ship cinematically required the use of a very old special effects technique - the split screen. 38 Lee Wilson of Toronto the American Cinematographer twists to this time hon¬ ored technique. Wilson and the Furniotis brothers pushed the tech¬ nique to new heights - "invisible traveling soft split-screens." The technique allows the actor(s) to around in the frame, with the invisible split following the action. move No longer are the technicians de¬ pendent on a strong vertical ele¬ ment to hide the split. some if we Says Wilson, "We did tests before production to see could move some splits in a static shot to accommodate the December 1988 ac¬ tors. Rather than shoot the scene with the actor playing one side, then shooting again with the actor playing the other side and locking him into a position in frame, the camera wouldn't were was locked off so you get the feeling that they standing in telephone booth slots and couldn't move from side to side. "We also wanted to know if could introduce the split after already started. Nor¬ mally when you see a split screen shot, the split is already there when we the scene had you come to the shot. You see the scene from one angle so there isn't any jarring in the image clue the audience that has that would something happened. Once we found that