Matte
noun - borrowing from French
Subject Field: Cinematography, Photography

A matte is a piece of film that is opaque in part of the frame area. When printed together with a normal shot it masks part of the image of that shot and allows another scene, reversely matted, to be printed in the masked-off area. Monaco			- Hyperonyms - Matte shot - Hyponyms - Fixed matte Traveling matte See Also Countermatte Bibliography Index Home Conceptual tree
Context: "Not only did I have to make mattes for the sky, but since Superman passes over the sky and in front of the volcano, I had to hold him out over all the different background elements". Magid Attestation: 3 Maschera Reliability: 3