Miniatures, extensions & forced perspective · Working

Forced perspective

ELI5

A design and camera technique manipulating scale and distance so objects appear larger, smaller, nearer or farther.

Used in conversation

“The treatment should show the forced perspective clearly enough for the department to plan it.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Forced perspective” in production design, locations, costume & hmu conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains how spaces, objects, clothes, hair and make-up create the physical world.

Sources & evidence · 3

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.