GREEN SCREEN INDUCTION AND RELEVANCY

The green screen induction allowed us to understand both the behind the scenes of green screen, but also for me, as someone in front of the camera (I volunteered to be the test for this green screen shoot) how to move in front of the camera and interact with a background that you can’t see, which was obviously an initial challenged but worked out in the end.

Learning how to light up a subject correctly, how to set up the space and the background, effects on zooming and close ups and how this effects video which was really helpful; the way of filming a green screen video is obviously completely different to filming a video with a proper background from different angles plus we have the added complexity of relating this back to a fictional background that we are going to design to fit the model in, the editing was just as important as the filming so luckily we had an induction on that as well. This was the part that I struggled with most, as not all of us don’t have to edit a film, I opted out of the editing process and will focus my energy on a part which would be more beneficial if I was involved. I would love to learn to edit, however with the short time frame, I don’t believe it would be effective if I had learned right now.

The relevancy with the idea of using a green screen to execute our idea lies within our initial themes exploring things like Alice in Wonderland, portals to a new world and transforming, the green screen also adds the simulation element which stems from our initial research into games and interactive content as our themes are playful and involving youth.