Green Screen Studios

by Vic Hurlstorm on November 18, 2009

Green Screen Studios is an inexpensive video and filmmaking technique in which 2 frames are melded into one. It is also ordinarily called Chroma key or sometimes color keying. A notable use is in TV weather circulars where the weather person appears to be standing in front of a huge graphic display. What occurs in truth 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 finish the illusion.

Green is a preferential color because it is so different from human skin color that good separation is accomplished. It’s 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 female and male clothing and requires brighter lighting. Lots of the newer Star Wars flicks make intensive use of color keying techniques. Green Screen Studios is also far cheaper than having your characters or props in front of an honest to goodness projection or TV screen.

Any project that involves green screen production should require the same sort of homework in sourcing an acceptable 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 talented and accomplished technicians.

It is accepted that cost will be a urgent consideration and that Green Screen Studios will charge based on the size and the standard of the equipment and the abilities of their technicians. This has to be balanced out against the proven fact that cheap facilities could be fatal for the quality of your project. Conversely, dear facilities could be a waste of money given the production that you am considering. A good Green Screen Studios will offer such facilities as satisfactory stage size, lighting, green rooms and air conditioning .A three wall cyclorama is a bonus if your project involves plenty of movement by the characters. Other key considerations would be privacy, comfort and satisfactory power availability.

In selecting the right Green Screen Studios you need to be sure that the color is completely even and the surface fully flat. The screen should also be of the right dimensions. It is recommended that you go through each shot you plan and then measure the screen area so you have the right dimensions. Allow for a little extra in case you need to widen or frame the shot more than you had imagined. Examine the area on both sides of the screen to ensure that there’s sufficient space to put your lights. Eventually, get the maximum possible space between your characters or props and the screen itself. This will make the job of lighting a whole lot easier.