Green Screen Alternative

We used different lighting techniques such as 3-point lighting, to enable us to edit the footage on imovie. However once we started to edit, we realised that there was always a section of Lauren's face that was more brightly lit than the rest meaning that when we put a different background up, some of the face became invisible.

Although the Green Screen did not work for us, it allowed us to explore different techniques and ideas of how to portray and make our teaser trailer. We learnt that to make this work we would need the specific lighting equipment rather than using equipment that we already had.

After several attempts, we gave up on the Green Screen, as we could never seem to get the lighting perfect and therefore decided to adapt the Green Screening idea, and change the contrast in the colours of the clip. We changed it so that it was brightly white portraying the cleanliness of our cult and film. By changing the contrast, we created a scene equally as believable as if we had used a Green Screen, if actually better.

Green Screen Test #3

We tried a third green screen test with our actress Lauren Bradley. We tried using a moving background, however we decided that it may be distracting of attention away from Lauren and her speech - also, this particular background didn't loop so effortlessly, after about six seconds of zooming in, it would snap back to it's original position so we needed something that we could have on a continuous loop. We also made sure that our actress' make up and hair was flawless preventing the light problems we'd previously had and smoothed down her fly-away hairs, which previously the greenscreen hadn't quite permeated, leaving a sort of green halo around her head. The key issue with this was the noise in the background - I think an extractor fan, which we hadn't realized was quite so prominent when filming, but the blue of the background brings out quite a lot of red in Lauren's skin and we want her to have a very pale, perfect, almost clinical feel. We experimented at the end with having her greenscreened on top of herself which though gave a quite cool, trippy sort of effect - again the flyaway hairs corrupted the image behind.

Green Screen #2

We attempted to the green screen a second time, but with a few modifications to correct what did not work so well last time.

   Firstly we filmed it with a dark room and lit it manually using lamps and spotlights, to create more artificial lighting in comparison to last time where it was within a room lit by daylight and general room lighting. The second attempt definitely worked a lot better.

Green Screen Test #1

Although the greenscreen test didn't come out perfect, it has helped us to know how to make use of the greenscreen feature on 'imovie hd'
From this filming we will know what do try to achieve next time:

• matte makeup on our actresses face.
• lighting, all over equal
• larger greenscreen
• an appropriate greenscreen background.