P.1 Matte and Matte Painting

Matte painting is where the artist draws a represented image of a location or set which t can also work when combined with the real footage. 
Matte painting is similar to green screen. Matte painting is used to set an environment to the film that is either too expensive to shoot or its non existen in real life.
At the beginning, artists used to paint or use pastels on large sheet of glass to do this.

Matte painting has been used in a lot of famous films such as King Kong, Star Wars and Dracula.
Some of the most  important painters and technicians are Michael Pangrazie, Walter Perey Day and Norman Down.

Matte painting used in King Kong 1933.

It was used in the location of the Skull Island because it was impossible to find a location like that. It was really successful in my opinion as it created the environment that it is supposed to make and it also links to the conventions of this genre.
It is convincing as they have put so much detail into it that you just asume that that place actually exist.

Raiders Of The Lost Arc, 1981 was when one of the most famous matte paintings was used in film. It was used in the scene where this man pushes this cargo down the central aisle.
This was a combination of the matte painting and the real footage which in my opinion was made really well as i thought the whole setting was real.