Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective is a technique that makes object appear further away, closer, larger or smaller. It is like an optical allusion, making people believe they see something that they actually don't. Forced perspective is used in photography, film-making and architecture. It manipulates visual perspective through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the camera. Forced Perspective in film can be made believable when environmental conditions obscure the difference in perspective. The role of light is very important in film. When shooting with forced perspective, it's important to have the aperture stopped down sufficiently to achieve proper depth of field, so that the foreground object and background are both sharp. A good example of forced perspective in film is in Peter Jackson's film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings.Characters apparently standing next to each other would be displaced by several feet in depth from the camera. This, in a still shot, makes some characters appear much smaller in relation to others. There are many ways forced perspective can be used. It is most commonly used in Cryptography and Film making. It is used as an optical allusion and often confuses people, making them see things that are not actually there. Forced perspective plays with their mind and their sight to achieve what is wanted. Forced Perspective is a technique that makes object appear further away, closer, larger or smaller. It is like an optical allusion, making people believe they see something that they actually don't. Forced perspective is used in photography, film-making and architecture. It manipulates visual perspective through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the camera. Forced Perspective in film can be made believable when environmental conditions obscure the difference in perspective. The role of light is very important in film. When shooting with