How To Do It Yourself: Green Screen Studios

By Phil Guye

Do you know the easy way film directors manage to create striking visuals on screen which you would never, for the life of you, see naturally in real life? They make use of green screen terraces to achieve the effect. What is green screening? Green screening is understood by a lot of other names. Some of those names include chroma keying, blue screening or color-keying.

It is naturally safe to presume that green screen studios make use of green screening or chroma keying in order to achieve the desired effect. Green Screening is a strategy utilized in video production wherein a background will be superimposed onto another background so the foreground image will be seen with the new background. How does it work? Let us take for instance the whole process of shooting a video. You have got your subject perform whatever actions you want in front of this green screen.

After the shoot, the video will go through post-processing and the green or blue screen will be substituted for a picture or another video. In effect, you'll have your subject or your actor moving and acting in whatever type of environment you want. Preparing the video to put in the green screen is another story altogether though. The most typical application of this technology is through the weather report system. The weatherman stands in front of a green screen and describes what the weather will be like for the following couple of days. The animated representations of the map and the storms and hurricanes that may plague different areas are a product of replacing the green screen with an mpeg of the map.

There are a couple of things to consider when you are using green screen studios. First would be the space. The usual problem for filmmakers when using the green screen is that the space is too limited and the lighting is too uneven. This is why it is tantamount to your success to find green screen studios that are huge and allow maximum mobility.

Another issue that you're going to come across with using green screen studios is the incompetent lighting. It is important that light is spread evenly in across the background if you need a smooth, fluid movement dancing in your screen. Correctly measure the distance that you will cover and the area of the green screen studio that you will use and you cannot get it wrong. - 30542

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