Monday, June 22, 2009

How a Green Screen Can Elevate the Production Quality of Your Video

From time to time we get requests from our clients to go and shoot interviews of important people - CEO's, celebrities, doctors, scientists, thought leaders and others - with a green screen in the background. Sometimes a blue screen is requested, but the majority of our gigs feature the green backdrop because it is less likely that the interviewee would be wearing neon green apparel than blue; and the point of the mono-color is that it will be keyed out during the post-production process. If someone happens to be wearing a green tie, for instance, then when the background is keyed out, the green tie will also be keyed out, and the interviewee will look as though they have a tie-shaped hole in their body. Continue ...