Guide to Using Green Screen Studios

Posted on December 17, 2009
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Green Screen Studios is a cheap video and film making technique in which 2 frames are melded into one. It is also frequently called Chroma key or occasionally color keying. A prominent use is in television weather bulletins where the weather person seems to be standing in front of a giant graphic display. What happens 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 complete the illusion.

Green is a preferential color because it is so different from human skin color that good separation can be done. It’s also the color to which digital cameras are most delicate. The other available color blue is less desirable because it is a common color in both male and female clothing and needs brighter lighting. Lots of the more recent 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 a projection or television screen.

Any project that involves green screen production should need the same sort of homework in sourcing an appropriate Green Screen Studios as a sound stage for a movie 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 based primarily on the size and the standard of the appliances and the skills of their technicians. This has to be balanced out against the proven fact that cheap facilities could be deadly for the standard of your project. Conversely, expensive facilities could be a waste of money given the production that you am thinking. A good Green Screen Studios will be offering such amenities as adequate stage size, lighting, green rooms and air conditioning .A 3 wall cyclorama is a bonus if your project involves lots of movement by the characters. Other key considerations would be privacy, comfort and sufficient power availability.

In choosing the right Green Screen Studios you have to be sure that the color is totally 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. Allow for a little additional in case you need to widen or frame the shot more than you had visualized. Examine the area on each side of the screen to make sure that there is enough room to put your lights. Ultimately, obtain the maximum possible space between your characters or props and the screen itself. This will make the job of lighting a whole lot easier.