Is this green screen or studio lighting?

[Christian Wheel]

I would say green screen, if you look closely you can very faintly see the edges (although it COULD be compression artifacts), but he’s also not casting shadows on the backdrop, which is inconstistent with the direction of his lighting. Finally, when the video cuts to tight shots, the backdrop resize appears slightly disproportionate from how it should.

Again, just a guess, I could be way off base!

[Akber Moeen]

Yeah sure its a green screen stuff, if you can see carefully his head part in closeup u can see a green spill at the top of his head for a while in one of the closeup shots, that where i caught that this is green screen job.

[Jeremy Fabiano]

I can’t tell.. Either way would work

if you did your chroma screen the right way, it should look just like the studio setup

-Jeremy

[Erik Pontius]

My money is on a simple studio lighting setup. Most likely a light with a party gel lighting a black, gray or colored cyc wall or seamless paper behind the subject creating a wash with a bit of a hotspot.
This could be done green screen as well, but why spend the extra time and effort properly lighting a green screen and pulling the matte when a five minute lighting job can do the trick?

Erik

[Jeremy Allen]

I think I agree with Akber. It looks like green spill on his hair, although I guess it could be a lighting anomoly. But it could certainly be done easily with a simple lighting setup.

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