Any Ideas for background?

Mj882

Mj882

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I'm planning an advert and wanted it to be shot entirely in one location with different characters and coloured backgrounds.

So each character would have his own coloured background; for example one character would have an entirely blue background, another would have entirely red.

Really simple setting.

Any ideas on how to go about doing this? I don't necessarily want to rely on green screen, because it seems to come out unprofessional everytime I've tried to implement it before.
 
Mj882 said:
I'm planning an advert and wanted it to be shot entirely in one location with different characters and coloured backgrounds.

So each character would have his own coloured background; for example one character would have an entirely blue background, another would have entirely red.

Really simple setting.

Any ideas on how to go about doing this? I don't necessarily want to rely on green screen, because it seems to come out unprofessional everytime I've tried to implement it before.
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Buy canvas drop clothes at Home Depot, or equivalent, then paint them with 'oops' paint, that is paint that has been returned and 'spiked' in color. The stretch on a frame. Frame can be made of piping bought at Home Depot...

I don't derive any financial benefit from Home Depot...
 
if you have some money and close by loc a camera shop

stills and video should carry blue screens and steel stands
also thats not a bad idea a few pieces of wood and painting
 
I've had a brief look at the drop cloths. There's different types, is it the sheeting roll? Because the drop cloths don't seem to be wide enough I'm assuming.
 
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They do make really wide drop cloths. You made need to check with a local, professional painting supply store.
 
Cheers, okay I'll be doing that real soon.

The only thing I'm worried about is how well it would look once it has been painted.

And also how I'd go about setting it up, j1Clark mentioned pipes..
 
Do the backgrounds need to be plain? I'd have thought a variety of subtle textured backgrounds each in one colour would be more visually interesting, e.g.: curtains, brick, wallpaper, wood etc. They could be faked, e.g. mounted on thin plywood.

Greenscreen is certainly more flexible, and great for multi-use of small sets, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you have experience - it introduces a whole pile of lighting problems.
 
Mj882 said:
I've had a brief look at the drop cloths. There's different types, is it the sheeting roll? Because the drop cloths don't seem to be wide enough I'm assuming.
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Sounds like that's 'plastic', I'm thinking of canvas drop cloths. I'll see if I can up load a short video on the subject...
 
use "keylight" in After Effects for great green screen keying results and shoot in the highest HD rez that you have available and also 4:2:2 or higher color sampling.
 
Ok, at great expense I've uploaded the brief tutorial...

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