ABSTRACT
The important thing to remember is that today special effects and visual effects artists and technicians work hand in hand during filmmaking. Close collaboration between the visual effects and special effects departments on a production is essential, and lines are blurred constantly. Although the reader might think this is a relatively new development, it is not. The very first visual effect audiences saw on film was The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots (1895). It required the close collaboration of the special effects team to provide a dummy with a severable head, and the visual effects team that executed the “jump cut” technique to make it appear as if the actor portraying Mary truly had her head cut off.
