Green Screen Practice

As a whole class we were set a task to film an entire rock music video in Green Screen to practice for our final music videos as individual groups. It was extremely important to practice this technique just in case we were going to use it in our final piece. There were certain stages in the process of setting up the green screen and during the green screen shoot that we had to take into consideration, these were:

• We had to first decide on which music video we was going to use for the practice green screen, we chose to do a rock music video as learning the words in such a short amount of time was much easier and more convenient. 
• Once we decided on the song, as a class we had to choose the roles of each person in the group to everyone had a part to play in the green screen practice. Three cameras were used filming the sequence and there was a drummer and lead singer. The rest of the group helped out by doing different things to set up and clear up after.
• The large green fabric which is used as part of the green screen had to be set up properly, this meant that is had to lay on the floor will no creases in to prevent different shades of green appearing on the green screen.
• One this had been set up, the correct lighting had to be put in place to keep the different shades of green to a minimum as this would affect the end result. Three lights were used, one on each side and the other tilting down onto the set. 
• There were three different cameras - one on a tripod with no movement directly in front of the lead singer, one of a long shot of the drummer behind the lead singer and one tracking camera tracking the movements of both the lead singer and the drummer.
• We then had to use final cut express to put all three clips together and to put them in time with each other so we could cut between the clips to make a music video. 
• We were able to add a layer by selecting a still image from the internet to use as the background which we then saved and added as a layer in final cut, we then had to eliminate all the green from the background of the clips so that the background could be behind the clips.