Requiem for a Dream is Darren Aronofsky’s second film, the first one being the psychological drama Pi. Here are the 15 best uses of split screen in cinema history.
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The split screen also makes frequent appearances in television series, as most of the cinematic techniques do the most famous example is perhaps the series 24. The Parent Trap (1961) used this technique extensively, making the same young actress play twins. The split screen has many uses: it can show the same moment from two angles, or more often two scenes happening in different places but simultaneously the most classic example of this use is the “phone call” split screen, where you have each person on the phone on a a side of the screen.įor many years, the split screen was also the go-to technique for making the same actor appear twice in the same frame.
With the digital age, the same trick can be easily achieved with a software, and this is the way it is generally done today. Traditionally, the split screen was made with the optical printer, which re-photographed different strips of film that could then be put together (the optical printer was also used for fade-ins, fade-outs, matte effects and others). The split screen perfectly epitomizes the gap between the analogue and the digital era of filmmaking. This way, different camera point of views can be seen at the same time in the same screen.
The split screen is an highly recognizable technique which divides the screen into two (or more) parts.
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