Technical: Green Screen

Technical - Green Screen

We decided to learn how to use the green screen in order to expand our knowledge on different editing types and effects, incase we wanted to use a green screen in our thriller opening.            

HOW ITS DONE

We first filmed me in front of the green screen with a DSLR camera, then uploaded that footage to the iMac and imported it into Final Cut Pro. We found an image on google images that could serve as the background image, save it, and imported it into final cut pro. We placed the video into the timeline, and placed the image underneath the video layer, then used the keyer tool to remove the green background of the video. There was still small amounts of the background left, so we used the Sample Colour tool to remove the rest of the colour, by selecting a region that had the remaining colour in it.

Screen grab of the green-screen image in effect.

Keyer tool in video effects

Sample colour tool

The green screen video layer above the image we want in the
background

EVALUATION

Learning how to use the green-screen further developed our skills as media producers, although it wasn't used during our final music video the technical skills that we acquired by learning how to use the green-screen were useful as it gave us the opportunity that we could use the green-screen if we wanted it or needed it. Also learning about how to edit the green screen recording on final cut pro improved our editing skills as it taught us new skills and introduced the different effects that we could use, that we didn't know how to use before.