Guide to Using Green Screen Studios
Posted by BAW on 29th Jan, 2010 in Movies and TV | 0 comments
Green Screen Studios is an inexpensive video and film making system in which 2 frames are melded into one. It’s also commonly called Chroma key or sometimes color keying. A notable use is in television weather bulletins where the weather person seems to be standing in front of a giant graphic display. What happens in truth is that the weather person stands in front of a blank Green Screen Studios. Different graphic displays are then digitally added to the blank green portions to complete the illusion.
Green is a preferred color because it’s so different from human skin color that good separation can be achieved. It’s also the color to which digital cameras are most delicate. The other available color blue is less satisfactory because it’s a common color in both masculine and feminine clothing and needs brighter lighting. Plenty of the more modern Star Wars movies make intensive use of color keying methods. Green Screen Studios is also far cheaper than having your characters or props in front of an actual projection or television screen.
Any project that involves green screen production should require the same kind of homework in sourcing an acceptable Green Screen Studios as a sound stage for a picture or a recording studio for music. The taping or filming of your characters or your props in front of a Green Screen Studios and the successive keying out of the green background needs skilled and accomplished technicians.
It is accepted that cost will be a crucial consideration and that Green Screen Studios will charge primarily based on the size and the standard of the appliances and the talents of their technicians. This has got to be balanced out against the undeniable fact that cheap facilities could be fatal for the standard of your project. Inversely, dear facilities could be a waste of money given the production that you am thinking. A good Green Screen Studios will be offering such comforts as acceptable stage size, lighting, green rooms and air con .A three wall cyclorama is a bonus if your project involves a lot of movement by the characters. Other key considerations would be privacy, comfort and adequate power availability.
In picking the right Green Screen Studios you need to be sure that the color is completely even and the surface absolutely flat. The screen also has to have the right dimensions. It is recommended that you go through each shot you plan and then measure the screen area so that you have the right dimensions. Make allowance for a little additional in case you need to dilate or frame the shot more than you had visualized. Examine the area on either side of the screen to make sure that there is enough space to place your lights. Ultimately, get the maximum possible space between your characters or props and the screen itself. This will make the job of lighting a lot easier.