Superman 3 Split Screen 4

The use of split screen in the film Superman 3 is film is very brief, afterwards it relies on actor and look a like double who turned around facing away from us so that we don't see his face.

Adaptation Split Screen Part 3

Charlie is a screen writer struggling to adapt an auto biographic novel into a coherent narrative based script for a film.

Actor Nicholas Cage plays both the writer and his Twin brother, this effect was achieved using the split screen.

Charly Part Nine (Flowers For Algernon) Split Screen Part 1

In the film Charly based on the novel Flowers for Algernon our main character Charlie is a man with mental deficiencies, after he under goes experimentations his intelligence increases exponentially. However later in the film is is to discover that he will loses he intelligence and revert back to the way he was before.



In this scene Charlie sees an apparition of his former self, he tries to flee but cannot escape, as though to symbolise that his fate is unavoidable.



This scene makes use of the split screen, an effect that allows the same actor to appear in the same frame, the shot was taken in one still but in two different takes and carefully integrated the two pieces of footage into one shot. This can effect can be utilised in a film centres around time travel where a character encounters their past/future dopplegänger.



This scene can be viewed here at 3:39

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaVk2rqvvpo

The 6th Day Split Screen Part 2

In the film The 6th Day centers on Adam Gibson, an average family man living in the not too distant future, a time when cloning pets has been legalised, he returns home one evening to discover that a clone of himself has taken his place.

This film applies the split screen effect by having the same actor play two different roles and interact with one another.

the effect was most likely achieved by digitally cropping the frames merging the two together.