P1. Research and understanding mattes and matte painting

Definition of Matte: is something of which is use in both film making and photography, this is where you combine two images or more to create a final piece.
This is normally used when people want to combine both the foreground and background images together. In filmmaking matte is a very well known effect, examples of this would be objects of which are wanted to be seen flying, they do this by gathering two sets of footage and one is of which will be the person standing there then jumps. The second would be just the background as an empty shot. 
It allows them to create the illusion of an environment that doesn't exist in real life. MATTE IS NOT REAL.

The History of Matte Painting

In the mid-1980s, new technology allowed matte painters to work in the digital industry. The first-ever digital matte shot was created by painter Chris Evans in 1985 for Young Sherlock Holmes in a scene featuring a CGI knight leaping from a stained-glass window. Evans first painted the window in acrylics, this was then scanned the painting into Lucas Film’s Pixar system for further digital manipulation. The computer animation blended with the digital matte. This matte painting stuff involved doing things such as blending scanned images with digital images to generate a scene in which was realistic to the human eye. This was first ever used in star wars a popular program and film of all times arranging across to others such and Planet of the apes and Sherlock Holmes and the wizRd of oz.