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Getting Started

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Getting Started

Categories: Editing Production
Posted by Michelle DeForest
Welcome to Chroma-Keying.
The first step is finding the right green screen.
Who knows where to find this?


Re: Getting Started

Posted by Java Lu PermaLink

well, it coule be any colour, dos not have to be green, i just use my bed sheet, or my white house.

Re: Getting Started

Posted by Ghostlight PermaLink
Green or blue are the best colors, depending on your subject matter. Superman wouldn't work in front of a bluescreen. The best screens are built into the set, like at Public Television studios. Large spaces allow you to get some distance between your subject and screen, which is important to avoid casting shadows on the screen.

For "talking head" stuff where the screen doesn't have to be huge, I think you can hang a green bedsheet or tack a smooth material to the wall.

It's too expensive, but we've played with this at tradeshows and it's our dream chromakey toy:
http://www.reflecmedia.com/

-Dave

Re: Getting Started

Posted by Michelle DeForest PermaLink
That looks fun. Does the light ring only work with their greenscreen?
I'm not sure I completely understand the way it works.



Previously Ghostlight Productions wrote:

Green or blue are the best colors, depending on your subject matter. Superman wouldn't work in front of a bluescreen. The best screens are built into the set, like at Public Television studios. Large spaces allow you to get some distance between your subject and screen, which is important to avoid casting shadows on the screen.

>

For "talking head" stuff where the screen doesn't have to be huge, I think you can hang a green bedsheet or tack a smooth material to the wall.

>

It's too expensive, but we've played with this at tradeshows and it's our dream chromakey toy:

>http://www.reflecmedia.com/

>

-Dave

Re: Getting Started

Posted by Michelle DeForest PermaLink
Also, if I were looking for that fancy green paint, where could I find it?

Re: Getting Started

Posted by Ghostlight PermaLink
Home Depot.
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