Green Screen Studios: Magic

Mar 10, 2010 in advertising

Green Screen Studios is an inexpensive video and filmmaking system in which two frames are melded into one. It’s also commonly called Chroma key or infrequently color keying. An outstanding use is in TV weather bulletins where the weather person seems to be standing in front of a giant graphic display. What occurs in reality 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 finish the illusion.

Green is a preferred color because it is so different from human skin color that good separation is achieved. It is also the color to which digital cameras are most sensitive. The other available color blue is less beneficial because it’s a common color in both male and female clothing and requires brighter lighting. Plenty of the newer Star Wars movies make extensive use of color keying methodologies. Green Screen Studios is also far less expensive than having your characters or props in front of an honest to goodness projection or TV screen.

Any project that involves green screen production should require the same sort of homework in sourcing a suitable 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 requires talented and accomplished technicians.

It is accepted that cost will be an imperative consideration and that Green Screen Studios will charge based totally on the size and the quality of the appliances and the abilities of their technicians. This must be balanced out against the indisputable fact that inexpensive facilities could be deadly for the standard of your project. Inversely, expensive facilities may be a waste of money given the production that you have in mind. A good Green Screen Studios will be offering such amenities as acceptable stage size, lighting, green rooms and air conditioning. A three wall cyclorama is a bonus if your project involves lots of movement by the characters. Other key points to consider would be privacy, comfort and adequate power availability.

In picking the right Green Screen Studios you need to be certain the color is totally even and the surface totally flat. The screen also has to have the right dimensions. It is generally 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 extra in case you want to dilate or frame the shot more than you had visualized. Inspect the area on either side of the screen to make sure that there is sufficient space to place your lights. Finally, get the maximum possible space between your characters or props and the screen itself. This could make the job of lighting a lot less complicated.

There are a lot of other sites offering various forms of advice on how to use green screen but a lot of them are not very specific or precise. Before following these, be sure to check my own articles and reviews on Green Screen and Green Screen Studios, additionally, you can reach me at phillipguye@hotmail.com or 1-323-851-3825