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Closeness to the greenscreen – videocopilot.net ?
I have been reading up on greenscreens and they say you should be 6-8 feet away and it should be lit separately. Now, after seeing Andrew Kramer’s awesome preview video for his DVD, it shows two people getting blown up on a greenscreen that is neither :
1) lit by more than just normal room light (that is what is seems like)
2) the actors are not even close to 6-8 feet away – in fact they are standing on the greenscreen!!How is this done? Whenever I try to put an actor in front of a greenscreen, my keys never come out as good as what he has done, is there another secret I am missing?
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[mandyy] “is there another secret I am missing?”
Probably Keylight and the manual that comes with it 🙂
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[Justin Productions] ”
Probably Keylight and the manual that comes with it :)”That, and the clever choice of wardrobe. Black by itself is easy to key on a green background, for two reasons:
1. black doesn’t suffer too much from a green spill (unless it’s a glossy material)
2. black on a green background results in high contrast in the green channel, allowing for a decent key.
If you need your cast to wear white shirts, you’d be best off keeping them as far away from the green background as possible – since white easily takes on the color of that background due to the reflection.
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Great tip, thank you for that.
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