Full green screen studio set?

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DeterminedFilmmaker

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Hi

I was wondering how much it would cost for a full green screen studio set, a full professional one. I can buy the lighting and other accessories separately. There would need to be a few different green screens, different sizes. There would also need to be poles and support stands to hold it up.

I don't want to spend more than $300 on this because I'm on a very tight budget here. Also, is it easy to rent a town hall or whatever to go for a day and stick the green screen up and shoot some stuff?

Thanks.
 
Please don't take offence to this post.

I think your putting the horse before the cart. These setups take time to master. I suggest starting small if you have never tried it before. Buy a Reversible-Flex-Green-Background, take it outside and practice medium shots.

I have spent a good while working and researching this subject and it's not as easy as it looks. If you have any questions just ask.
 
I have a collapse-able botero that is easily just thrown up against a wall - Link -and it folds up pretty nice in a black bag. It's about 15 ft tall and the train is enough to capture a person full body standing still.
It can also hang if you have fixtures to mount it to.

Are you sure you need different sizes? Why?

Maybe you know but - I have to say it.
Don't skimp on lighting, that's the most important part of a greenscreen shoot. Seriously.
 
From what I know, here in Montreal there's a 'smaller' studio that's well know amongst low budget filmmakers. They usually cut deals depending on your budget. For a very low budget feature they were able to give them a really good deal, $1000/day.

It really depends.

Why exactly do you need different sized greenscreens? A lot of studios let you paint the walls green, if they don't already have a greenscreen room (where it's usually a green wall, ideally curved) for this purpose. One big wall should meet most of your needs.

For 300$, I would just try an convert a friend's garage into a greenscreen studio. If you're good enough at keying, any green will do these days. Spend your money on the lights, get a good shade of green, paint a sheet of gyprock or a wall, or get some green cloth that covers a large area.

If you need a really large area you have to start getting creative. We can't tell you prices for renting other rooms. That's stuff you'll have to do.
 
October Black said:
Please don't take offence to this post.

I think your putting the horse before the cart. These setups take time to master. I suggest starting small if you have never tried it before. Buy a Reversible-Flex-Green-Background, take it outside and practice medium shots.

I have spent a good while working and researching this subject and it's not as easy as it looks. If you have any questions just ask.
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I've got a basic green screen, but I know a lot about studio set ups/ keying and green screens. But I'll come back to you if I'm in need of help, thanks.
 
how much it would cost for a full green screen studio set, a full professional one
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I was about to steam in with the costs of either plastered walls, infinity curves and other gizmos, and then I saw the budget. So we're talking portable stands, with green cloth. The budget might just get you a reasonable size Chinese one, which will be ok if you take care of it. You're not going to be able to do much better than that for this because professional standard and very tight budgets never match. Size of course is critical - green screen on a smallish background is not too bad, but increase the size and up goes the lighting problem too. If you need two people in a head to foot shot then wide and tall is going to push the budgets too. I've got one of the Chinese things and it does the job, although the stands are flimsy and the cloth thin. It is, however, green!
 
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