for a video I did, I went to a art supply store and bought lime green poster board...bought about 4 of them (total $4). I used that for a green screen. It was so ghetto and last minute. Ended up working but I had to use Shake instead of After Effects to key out all the green. Do I recommend it?.... No. Is it possible and really cheap, yes.
IKEA Greenscreen "Ditte"
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i've done the same thing with painters tape (blue).....not easy or ideal, but it worked.
I used to be a big advocate for DIY but do yourself a big favor and beg borrow or steal a real green screen. I did my first shoot recently. And after some disaster tests using everything from paper to plastic to cloth as DIY green screens, and with someone else's money at stake I made the wise choice and begged a local lighting and grip rental place to lend me a green screen. They gave me a huge lighting and grip kit (more than we ended up able to power) and included a 12x12 green screen on a collapsable frame with stands and 2 4x4 kino flos.
I will never go back to DIY for keying. Pulling a half decent key from DIY is a nightmare that often requires 100x the post work to fix and make halfway useable. My best case DIY scenario had so much variation in the green that i lost all the small detail cleaning it up. I could only shoot stuff with a fast shutter because motion blur would be lost with the adjustments to overcome the wrinkles and lighting falloff on the green screen.
I could never attempt to pull keys from footage like this if that green screen was a piece of ikea tablecloth or something.
I will never go back to DIY for keying. Pulling a half decent key from DIY is a nightmare that often requires 100x the post work to fix and make halfway useable. My best case DIY scenario had so much variation in the green that i lost all the small detail cleaning it up. I could only shoot stuff with a fast shutter because motion blur would be lost with the adjustments to overcome the wrinkles and lighting falloff on the green screen.
I could never attempt to pull keys from footage like this if that green screen was a piece of ikea tablecloth or something.