Special Effects in Films

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
Use the words given in capital letters to form a word that fits into the gap.

ENTERTAIN, EXPECT, INCREASING, DISAPPOINT, AMAZING, SUCCEED, INTERESTING, MOTIVATE
NEAR, DIGIT, ACT, SURPRISE, PART, ASTONISH, FASCINATE, IMAGE, CREATE

George Lucas‘s Star Wars transformed 20th century and raised audience to alarming heights for film producers. Since Star Wars was made in 1977 special effects have become important in selling a film.

The script of Jurassic Park, for example, was rather but the film was a box office success because the dinosaurs were realistic. However, special effects do not always guarantee . , when Lost World came out the technology was far superior, but people had become tired of dinosaurs and were simply not
enough to want to go and see them any more. The film was not as successful as its predecessor.

But who is not impressed when they see Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace, the first ever 3D interactive character seen on film? Computer-generated are certainly the way ahead , but you may be to discover that the most expensive special effect was filmed in 1956. The of the Red Sea in Cecille DeMille’s The Ten Commandments cost an £ 2 million.

But what does the future hold? It is to think that with computer-generated filmmakers may be able to deceased movie stars , such as James Dean and Marylyn Monroe.