Talk:Garbage matte

Redirect

I redirected this to a section of its own in Matte (filmmaking), since this is just a special case of matting. --Janke | Talk 08:10, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not certain that was a good idea. The problem is that matte is actually used in filmmaking to mean several VERY different things. Such as

A plate with a rectangular hole placed in front of the lens to block flares
The box which holds these plates (the matte box)
A plate used inside the camera at the film gate to block part of the frame
An aperture mask used in the movie projector gate to block part of the frame
A visual effects technique, which has several subsections (such as creating a garbage matte, 3D matting)
Glass paintings created to fill in the space separated in the above visual effect technique

And so on. In my opinion, the better solution is to disambiguate the matte (filmmaking) page to each of these separate meanings. Girolamo Savonarola 20:19, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not a bad idea to split and make a dab page - but then the sub-articles would, at least in the beginning, be no more than stubs, right? But if you wish to do it, I don't object, especially if you'd expand the articles. (In any case, I think the special effects matting should all be in one article.) --Janke | Talk 20:39, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stubs aren't a bad idea per se, so long as they have the potential to grow - the current matte page discusses too many different things in shallow detail and can easily confuse the reader. But you're probably right that we only need a few articles - I'd say soft matte (current redirect is wrong), hard matte (redirects to current matte article), matte box (stub), and matte (visual effect) (to be created). Anyway, the hardest work is always writing the content, not renaming! :) Girolamo Savonarola 20:50, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]