One image, and sometimes more than one, placed over another to yield a double or multiple exposure.
Characteristics:
- Augment the sense of movement and enhance the feeling of rapidity
- Suggest disorientation and/or confusion
- Sound can underline or minimise these effects
- Spatial orientation tends to be unclear
- Call for visual selection in the audience, related to Split screen, divided screen, multi image shots
Related effects: Split screen, divided screen, multi image shots
Related inductor effect: Framing; Editing
Opposite effect: Mattes
(Johnson, 1974)