American Cinematographer - December 1988 - 40

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



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