The Green Screen Shoot

Hi,

Another day, more work to do. Here's an update on yesterday:

I scheduled a green screen shoot yesterday with one of my colleagues. This exercise was to get some test shots which I could composite in After Effects to prepare me for my final project next May. On the shoot, I managed to get my colleague to pretend an explosion hit him and he fell back onto a crash mat...This was hilarious to watch, but it may sell the effect. During the shoot, I found that there were couple problems which became apparent very quickly:

• We didn't have enough lights: when we arrived at the location, we had 3 Gulliver (300w) lights. We started lighting the green screen as evenly as possible. But when we lit the green screen as evenly as we could (which was not an easy task), once the subject entered the scene, he was completely underexposed in the camera. We needed more lights...
• We had no 'tough spun': when lighting the green screen, we found that 'hotspots' appeared on the wall, which would be a nightmare to key out in post. So we spoke to a lecturer who was able to provide us with 'tough spun' to diffuse the harsh light on the wall, lighting the green screen evenly.

Overall, this was a fun shoot and I will produce a test reel which will be on my Vimeo, Youtube, Facebook and so on. 

Cheers

Mike