Quick note on green screen
February 7th 2012 21:08
Avoid if at all possible. Shoot, instead, with one clean background plate, and then with actor, if you need to do any VFX.
Green screen usually doesn't work even in multimillion-dollar Hollywood films. Pros can tell it's green screen. The normal audience member can also tell it's green screen; they just don't realise they realise.
I paused the DVD player on shots in Harry Potter and in The Machinist recently, asked girlfriend, "Notice anything?" Answer: "It's green screen." But maybe she's been around me too long.
Things to look out for include: edge is too sharp; edge has bits of green in it or shimmering colours; quality or grain of image doesn't match; lighting doesn't match.
Ways to get away with it include:
-- make it a very short shot
-- cover it up with all sorts of crap composited into the image
-- as someone once said, smoke and darkness have sold any number of visual effects
-- use it as part of a music video. You can then get away with anything.
Green screen usually doesn't work even in multimillion-dollar Hollywood films. Pros can tell it's green screen. The normal audience member can also tell it's green screen; they just don't realise they realise.
I paused the DVD player on shots in Harry Potter and in The Machinist recently, asked girlfriend, "Notice anything?" Answer: "It's green screen." But maybe she's been around me too long.
Things to look out for include: edge is too sharp; edge has bits of green in it or shimmering colours; quality or grain of image doesn't match; lighting doesn't match.
Ways to get away with it include:
-- make it a very short shot
-- cover it up with all sorts of crap composited into the image
-- as someone once said, smoke and darkness have sold any number of visual effects
-- use it as part of a music video. You can then get away with anything.
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