Jerry, this is a personal view, not based on anything I've read or discussed with others, but to me the term "Special Effect" would be something which takes a "possible" shot and turns it into the "impossible" (eg unrealistic colour correction, flying through the air, "bullet time" etc) OR it may be creating something that could be made to happen, without it actually being there (eg hundreds of soldiers in a war scene when only a few actors were used)

"Effects" (without the special) to me suggests soem sort of treatment to bring something less than perfect up to a certain standard (so colour correction to adjust for incorrect white balance, cropping and panning would be "effects" )


I wouldn't consider what you're doing as any sort of effect. "Just"interesting and inventive camerawork. That is you are enhancing what we are seeing by shooting at certain angles, framing in certain ways etc. You're not trying to "cheat" the original in any way. Everything we see is possible - just emphasised by artistic camerawork and editing.

I'd rather see your camerawork than "Special" effects any day.

All my personal POV. Others will almost certainly disagree.

FWIW I loved yourfilm the first time I saw it

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Tim