How Are Those 'Severance' Elevator Transitions Created?
Apple TV+'s Severance uses a visual effect when employees use the severed floor elevator, but you've actually seen this technique before.
You may be familiar with the visual effect in Apple TV+'s Severance that happens when Lumon employees take the severed floor elevator. As the actor in the scene shifts gears between their character's severed and unsevered modes, their head gets either wider or narrower and the elevator seems to change in size behind them. This cinematography technique, called a dolly zoom or “zolly,” is actually pretty common, and you’ve seen it more than you think — ever heard of the “Vertigo effect”?
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