Lighting a full body greenscreen

stephen_nugent

stephen_nugent

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Will be lighting a greenscreen (background/floor) with at least 3 actors. Have access to tungsten/hmi lighting and kinoflos. Anybody can recommend a way or a link to lighting a full body greenscreens, esp. on dealing with the floor? thanks.
 
Just did a full body greenscreen at a greenscreen studio and we tried to light the floor seperately(we flagged the light from the talent) from where the talent was standing. we lit the greenscreen as uniformly as possible. I t helps to have a light meter,especially in a big space.
 
mcll said:
Just did a full body greenscreen at a greenscreen studio and we tried to light the floor seperately(we flagged the light from the talent) from where the talent was standing. we lit the greenscreen as uniformly as possible. I t helps to have a light meter,especially in a big space.
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ye was thinking about using a lightmeter, heard that i should light the green one stop under the talent. Can you share your lighting setup mcll?
 
Depends on the height of your camera. Are you seeing the floor, or are the actors shoes in silhouette with little to no floor? I like putting the actors up on a stage that is maybe a few feet tall. That way the stage can be pulled away from the green screen and lit separately. You can either paint the stage, or drape it with another green screen. Getting the actors away from the green is the best way to handle this kind of shoot, not allows possible but best. Otherwise you have to light them more side-lighty so that the shadows do not appear on your screen.

Good Luck,
Wilson
 
Definitely seeing the floor, its an ad for a radio station where the radio hosts will be in full shot with props around them on the floor (speakers etc). Will be shootng at a small studio where the set is painted greenscreen-green with a curved edge between floor and wall.

I have access to kinos for even lighting, thinking about placing two on c-stands to evenly light the back wall and mount a couple more on a horizontal pole over and above the actors to light the floor and act as backlight to the actors.

Prob use a couple more kinos for the actors themselves (side-lit) and a fresnel to accentuate backlight that will cast shadows off the set. Might need some more fill from the camera position.

Any comments on the above? Worried about multiple shadows.
 
Nudge-

Chances are that you will have a few shadows, the trick is making sure they are light enough to take out in post. You idea sounds good with what you have, just get them as far away from the back as possible and leave time to adjust as necessary. Try to flag kinos for the background off the people, killing those shadows, and other flags might help as well.

Good Luck
 
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