Chroma Key-White Room Effect

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jamwest24

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I am working on a short film and having a difficult time on deciding how to setup this scene. It is a purely white room w/ some objects such as a TV etc., similar to the Matrix white room scenes w/ the weapons and shots w/ Morpheus describing what the Matrix is.

I am trying to decide what the best way to do this would be because the camera will be moving around the actor, so having as much white room as possible w/o having to cut away from the actor to realign the scene would be the most ideal.

I'm just looking for any suggestions, tips, or help I can get. I'd appreciate it, because it is a crucial part of the film.

Thanks to anyone that could help!
 
Shoot in an actual white room. Most cities have art studios with white cycs, you might even be able to use it for free. Nothing beats the real thing.
 
i'll have to look into that, just concerned about the shadows mainly, we don't want to have hardly any, but that could definitely be a good possibility! thanks!
 
White cycs are about as hard to light as green screens, but it'll look much better than a green screen keyed white. Just find a white cyc as mentioned above and light it SOFT SOFT SOFT.

And even too. Did I mention soft?
 
If you're looking for a white limbo effect, these kinds of shots are definitely done with a white cyc and the soft lighting mentioned before is usually done with space lights of something similar. These are huge lantern type fixtures which basically blanket everything around them in soft white light. Space lights are really expensive but you could do the same thing with some chinese lanterns placed on the ceiling of the art studio or wherever you find the white cyc. Tree's of CFL's should work too. Just use a bunch of Y sockets to make a large fixture with several CFL's of 40w or so on them and place several of those around the room.

Here's an example of space lights at work in a green screen studio:

http://www.pieintheskystudios.com/images/0003.jpg


By the way, you could conceivably do the same thing by shooting in a green screen environment if you can't find the white cyc and then just key in pure white. Might even look better if you get a good key.

Just make sure of course you minimize the green spill on subjects with appropriate rim lighting of magenta for green screen and amber for blue screen or maximize the distance from the screen to the subjects.
 
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