Monday, January 18, 2010

Green Screen Studios: Cheap Alternative

By Phillip Guye

Green Screen Studios is a cheap video and filmmaking method in which two frames are melded into one. It is also ordinarily called Chroma key or occasionally color keying. An outstanding use is in television 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 complete 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 advantageous because it's a common color in both masculine and feminine clothing and requires brighter lighting. Plenty of the more moderen Star Wars flicks make in depth use of color keying techniques. Green Screen Studios is also far less expensive than having your characters or props in front of an actual projection or television screen.

Any project that involves green screen production should need the same sort of homework in sourcing a suitable 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 subsequent keying out of the green background needs talented and accomplished technicians.

It is accepted that cost will be a urgent consideration and that Green Screen Studios will charge primarily based on the size and the standard of the gear and the talents of their technicians. This has got to be balanced out against the indisputable fact that inexpensive facilities could be lethal for the quality of your project. Inversely, expensive facilities might be a waste of money given the production that you am thinking. A good Green Screen Studios will offer such facilities as acceptable stage size, lighting, green rooms and air con .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 that the color is completely even and the surface absolutely flat. The screen also has to have the right dimensions. It is suggested 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 extra in case you need to widen or frame the shot more than you had envisaged. Inspect the area on each side of the screen to ensure that there's enough room to put your lights. Finally, get the maximum possible space between your characters or props and the screen itself. This will make the job of lighting a heap easier.

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