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* A version of the filter technique was also used in ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "The Howling Man" to depict the title character's transformation.

* The TV ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' series would achieve the shaking of the bridge when under attack by [[StarTrekShake simply shaking the camera and getting the crew to wobble about]]. Later SF productions with a bigger budget, such as the ''Trek'' films, replaced the cheesy effect with PracticalEffects: sets would be placed on top of a large platform and the camera would be still while the entire set was shaken. That would be counted as PracticalEffects.

* Spoofed in ''Series/TopGearUK'' when Jeremy Clarkson attempted to get a 'dramatic soft focus' effect by smearing petroleum jelly on the camera lens. [[CatchPhrase Didn't go well]].

* With older, non-digital cameras, using a black screen or cover so that only part of the film is exposed (and thus the rest can have something else filmed onto it.
* A dark filter could be used to simulate night-time while shooting in daytime. Unfortunately it does nothing to eliminate shadows caused by sunlight, leading to the slightly hilarious effect of having obvious sun-shadow at night.

* Matte paintings were often used as backdrops with the focus kept off them. Bipacking was a method where instead footage was shot of just the matte and then was placed in the camera, overlayed on top of the unexposed film. When the camera ran and the film was exposed, the image of the matte would be imprinted on it.

* Spoofed in ''TopGear'' when Jeremy Clarkson attempted to get a 'dramatic soft focus' effect by smearing petroleum jelly on the camera lens. [[CatchPhrase Didn't go well]].

* An In-Camera example is the "He Plays The Violin" dance in the garden during ''[[SeventeenSeventySix 1776]]'', seen [[http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/247430/1776-Movie-Clip-He-Plays-the-Violin.html here]], the dolly shot starting at 3:25.

** ''Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde1931'' had the Jekyll to Hyde transformation made entirely on screen with the camera on him, the physical character change being done only with the use of filters and decent acting.

* Cinematographer Karl Strauss made pioneering work with filters. He would have actors' make-up be done in red or green and then put red or green filters to take them out of the picture. The filter could be slowly changed and the make-up would be changed.
** 1931's ''Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' had the Jekyll to Hyde transformation made entirely on screen with the camera on him, the physical character change being done only with the use of filters and decent acting.
** In ''Film/BenHur'' (presumably the 1925 one), the lepers' sores were done in red make up and then filtered out for the healing scene.

In-camera effects are special effects achieved by manipulating ''the camera or its parts''. The effect exists on the original camera negative or video recording before it is sent to a lab or modified. In-Camera effects include using filters like the GaussianGirl effect, mattes, or lighting artifacts, like lens flares; CameraTricks like zooms, pans, ForcedPerspective, and dolly shots; time/speed effects like time-lapse, slow- or fast-motion, reverse motion, stop-tricks or speed ramping; or specialty films like infrared or negative image.

In-camera effects are special effects achieved by manipulating ''the camera or its parts''. The effect exists on the original camera negative or video recording before it is sent to a lab or modified. In-Camera effects include using filters, mattes, or lighting artifacts, like lens flares; CameraTricks like zooms, pans, ForcedPerspective, and dolly shots; time/speed effects like time-lapse, slow- or fast-motion, reverse motion, stop-tricks or speed ramping; or specialty films like infrared or negative image.

A number of InCamera tricks were developed in the early days of film when there was not only the obvious lack of CGI but also a lack of film manipulating technology. Of course then a number will have been replaced by easier, more technologically advanced means but some also died out because they were only applicable to black and white. Coloured filters, for instance, could be used to block out light from red or green, rendering some objects or makeup hidden to the monochrome camera until the filters were removed, creating a reveal.

Some other interesting InCameraEffects:

* An in-color version of the filter trick: Zaphod's color-changing sunglasses in the TV version of Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy were made out of polarizing filters, with another polarizer on the camera lens. When all three were oriented the same way, light passed through freely and the glasses were clear. When the one on the camera was turned, it blocked the light that the glasses let through, turning them black while everything else appeared unchanged.


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* In ''Film/TheWomanInTheWindow'' by Fritz Lang, Edward G. Robinson is shown waking up from a dream. This is done without any cut or dissolve. Instead the camera zooms in for a closeup of his face, while stagehands removed the tear-away clothes that Robinson was wearing and put in a new set behind him, all in a matter of seconds.

* The [[VertigoEffect Tracking Zoom]] is made by having a camera on a dolly zoom in while the dolly moves away. The subject stays in the same place but the perspective of everything around it changes. You've probably SeenItAMillionTimes, sometimes the human eye can give this effect but for an example, the distorting zoom in on Sheriff Brody's face in ''Film/{{Jaws}}''.

InCameraEffects are special effects achieved by manipulating ''the camera or its parts''. The effect exists on the original camera negative or video recording before it is sent to a lab or modified. In-Camera effects include using filters, mattes, or lighting artifacts, like lens flares; CameraTricks like zooms, pans, ForcedPerspective, and dolly shots; time/speed effects like time-lapse, slow- or fast-motion, reverse motion, stop-tricks or speed ramping; or specialty films like infrared or negative image.

* In ''TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'', the long shot of astronauts in the lunar excavation used bipacking.

** In ''Film/BenHur'', the lepers' sores were done in red make up and then filtered out for the healing scene.

** In BenHur, the lepers' sores were done in red make up and then filtered out for the healing scene.

* An In-Camera example is the "He Plays The Violin" dance in the garden during ''[[SeventeenSeventySix 1776]]'', seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esbzbUlf19Y&feature=related here]], the dolly shot starting at 5:10.

* A modern, digital camera example came in ''[[TwentyEightDaysLater 28 Days Later]]''. All of the scenes of the infected were shot with the shutter speed of the Canon XL-1 camera set very high, resulting in an unsettling and "jumpy" look.
* A hand-cranked camera was used during part of the shootout in ''HotFuzz'', allowing both undercranking and overcranking to be used for added dramatic effect.

* In ''[=~2001: A Space Odyssey~=]'', the long shot of astronauts in the lunar excavation used bipacking.

* The TV ''StarTrek'' series would achieve the shaking of the bridge when under attack by [[StarTrekShake simply shaking the camera and getting the crew to wobble about]]. Later SF productions with a bigger budget, such as the ''Trek'' films, replaced the cheesy effect with PracticalEffects: sets would be placed on top of a large platform and the camera would be still while the entire set was shaken. That would be counted as PracticalEffects.

* The [[VertigoEffect Tracking Zoom]] is made by having a camera on a dolly zoom in while the dolly moves away. The subject stays in the same place but the perspective of everything around it changes. You've probably SeenItAMillionTimes, sometimes the human eye can give this effect but for an example, the distorting zoom in on Sheriff Brody's face in ''{{Jaws}}''.

* A dark cover could be used to simulate night-time while shooting in daytime. Unfortunately it does nothing to eliminate shadows caused by sunlight, leading to the slightly hilarious effect of having obvious sun-shadow at night.

* The TrackingZoom is made by having a camera on a dolly zoom in while the dolly moves away. The subject stays in the same place but the perspective of everything around it changes. You've probably SeenItAMillionTimes, sometimes the human eye can give this effect but for an example, the distorting zoom in on Sheriff Brody's face in ''{{Jaws}}''.

* An In-Camera example is the "He Plays The Violin" dance in the garden during ''[[SeventeenSeventySix 1776]]'', seen here [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esbzbUlf19Y&feature=related here]], the dolly shot starting at 5:10.

A number of InCamera tricks were developed in the early days of film when there was not only the obvious lack of CGI but also a lack of film manipulating technology. Of course then a number will have been replaced by easier, more technologically advances means but some also died out because they were only applicable to black and white. Coloured filters, for instance, could be used to block out light from red or green, rendering some objects or makeup hidden to the monochrome camera until the filters were removed, creating a reveal.

* The TV ''StarTrek'' series would achieve the shaking of the bridge when under attack by [[StarTrekShake simply shaking the camera and getting the crew to wobble about]]. Later on, for the movies which had a bigger budget and other sci-fi shows that wanted to avoid the now considered cheesy effect this gave, sets would be placed on top of a large platform and the camera would be still while the entire set was shaken. That would be counted as PracticalEffects.