Best fabric for ghetto green screen?

t-h-e-w-h-o

t-h-e-w-h-o

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I want to "make my own green screen" and i know this comes up on various forums rather often, but can anyone recommend a place to get the propper fabric?

If not im just going to my local fabric store to see if they have some super bright green sheets and i can just change the color tolerance in keylight.... i think...
 
You need a "deep" green, not a "bright" green.

It should look like this:
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That's the absoloute correct Chroma Key Green from Rosco's site. http://www.rosco.com/us/scenic/chroma_key.asp ("color chips" link at the top of the page)


I have had good luck with green felt, and an old green christmas table cloth. Though the real Rosco stuff does work best. :)

- Mikko
 
I went to my local Joannes and got a nice matte green. You need a fabric that wont reflect light.

I bought three 3x10' peices and had them sewn together. I had 4 inches folded over and sewn around the whole outside edge so I could slide PVC Pipe in. It works great, and I can take it down when I need to.
 
"HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?" or "HOW GHETTO CAN YOU GO?"

Haven't tried mine yet but I got a green sheet set at 'FAMILY DOLLAR'. It's full size and measures 81'x96'. No other place had as deep a green. When you 'reply to thread' on this site there's a green smiley-face-man that kicks a yellow smiley-face-man in the crotch then gives a Ronnie James Dio-devil-hand-sign: that's my shade of GREEN.:nads: It's a little deeper, less bright lime green than the real thing but from my other tests I think it'll work fine - and it only cost $15.

Peace.
 
I was able to find something at my local fabric store that is almost true chroma green. It was cheap.
 
hatsoff2halford said:
I went to my local Joannes and got a nice matte green. You need a fabric that wont reflect light.

I bought three 3x10' peices and had them sewn together. I had 4 inches folded over and sewn around the whole outside edge so I could slide PVC Pipe in. It works great, and I can take it down when I need to.
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same place i just got mine, in good light it worked great, however it looked bad BUT still worked with NO added light. (as suspected obviously)

Heres a clip of some mucking around i did.

http://www.dvxhost.com/files/video/ipood.vcd.mpg
 
less expensive green screen

less expensive green screen

What a friend of mine did (he keeps a green screen cyc wall in his studio) for a field green screen, and he did have a van for a griptruck to haul this:

He bought a piece of linoleum and painted the backside of it, it was a remnant of a roll approx. 15-20' long - depending on if your subject has to stand on it too.

When time was short (and we could'nt get Ultimatte paint in time) we also took our Roscoe swatch to Home Depot (or Lowe's) and had them scan and match it. Not exact but close enough.

This stayed nice and flat, you just had to support it, not stretch it. It rolled back up when you were done and with the green side in, it was protected.

MR
 
What did the fabric store call the color? I painted my Harlem living room back in 2002 with the Roscoe key green from B&H (I had a place in Brooklyn too so wifey didn't kill me)...but been getting the itch to get a mobile hookup, especially since we recently hooked up with the Saline Project and they agreed to edit some footage of my partner's music video for free. Thought I was crazy when I saw it the first time, but recently learned that cats are using clear skies for some cool Blue Screen FX, tho this has obvious limits.
 
I just went to "hobby lobby" and picked up some cheap bright green cloth they had. No its not "chroma green" but then i'm just playing with a greenscreen in the corner of my room so it doesn't really matter to me. I've been able to key it out just fine. I think if you've go the lighting equip. you can make a cheaper screen work fine. but even if not its enough to let you play with greenscreens. If your trying to setup something legit buy the paint, if not, just get cheap cloth. mine was $3 a yard.
 
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