1.
The scenic view behind the lunch tables on Zoey 101 was actually not real.
2.
Ugly Betty used a lot of green screens to film scenes that took place on the streets of Manhattan.
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Also, in Season 1, a scene where Betty and Daniel walk on a bridge and rest against it was actually filmed with a green screen and a green banister.
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Even scenes that took place on Betty’s home street in Queens were not filmed on actual streets.
5.
In The Wolf of Wall Street, editing completely transformed the exterior of this home.
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And there was a brief shot in the film where the character Naomi walks along a pier to get on a boat to Italy, which was also brought to life by the magic of editing.
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The 2013 film The Great Gatsby employed green screens to add details to Jay Gatsby’s house.
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Also, this elegant yard was actually shot on some big, empty field.
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Some outside shots of Gatsby’s house were also fully edited.
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And the scene were Gatsby and Nick walk on the pier is, once again, actually a “pier” in a studio.
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In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the spiral staircase in Hogwarts was not nearly as long as it appeared to be.
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In another scene inside the walls of Hogwarts, Helena Ravenclaw floats down the hallway…but there was no hallway.
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And when Harry, Hermione, and Ron come out of the lake, yeah, that whole thing was not actually filmed outside.
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In The Hunger Games, high-tech desks in the control room obviously don’t exist IRL, but I was still surprised to learn that they created the image just from putting a green layer over the counters.
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This rooftop scene with Cristina Yang in Grey’s Anatomy was not what it appeared to be.
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In The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1, the outside view of Carlisle’s home office was all fake.
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In A Series of Unfortunate Events, the outside of Josephine’s house wasn’t a completely built set piece.
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And lastly, these ships and the sea in this Boardwalk Empire scene didn’t exist at all.
