Blue Screen, how to make?

[Shawn Murphy]

I used a roll of $40 green paper from FilmTools, taped it to a wall, and came up with this (after a LOT of clean-up!): iPod spoof

That was clever! ;-)

 

[Matulis]

Did you have a green screen on a large area of the floor to get that "looking down" view of the actor?

The FilmTools stuff is quite a long roll of paper, and maybe eight or nine feet wide. I made sure that it was taped high enough on the wall to cover any low angle shots, then rolled it down and across the floor. Worked pretty well. I think there was only one time where a limb popped out of the green area.

 

[BradCube]

I used a roll of $40 green paper from FilmTools, taped it to a wall, and came up with this (after a LOT of clean-up!): iPod spoof

That was absolutely fantastic. Would you be able to give me any details on the programs used and the way you were able to achieve this? For exaplle, how did you colour him Black when you were relying on the color information of the green paper? And also how were you able to color the wires and Ipod so fluidly? I'm still a learner : )

Great video, top notch.

 

[Matulis]

That was absolutely fantastic. Would you be able to give me any details on the programs used and the way you were able to achieve this? For exaplle, how did you colour him Black when you were relying on the color information of the green paper? And also how were you able to color the wires and Ipod so fluidly? I'm still a learner : )

Great video, top notch.

Hey Brad. Thank you for the compliment. I did the cut in Final Cut Pro. Then I exported each shot to Shake for the keying. (I did a job where I had access to it so that was my crash course in learning a little about the program.) Once your key is pulled, you can do pretty much whatever you want to with the remaining image. I tweaked the saturation, brightness, contrast until I got my actor really dark, which I was then asked to lighten in several shots to see more of what was happening. Then I exported each shot as a QuickTime movie. Then I took the original clips and the colored clips into Motion to do the wires. I stacked them so I could "draw" over the existing wires on the original clip, then drop the opacity to reveal the colored clip to see how it looked. That was the most tedious thing I have ever done, as each wire had anywhere from 3 to 9 adjustment points, which had to be adjusted in each and every frame. Nightmare. The iPod itself was a really bad Photoshop graphic. If you step frame it, you can see how weird it looks. Then once everything was decent, I dropped out the original clips, rendered out the colored clips with the wires on top, re-imported all of those clips into Final Cut and rendered the whole thing. Fun stuff! Hope that helps.