How to Make a Green Screen Studio

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Shaun O'Rorke with Eleven Bravo Productions and I'm here on Sound Stage 2 at EUE Screen Gem Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina. The largest studio complex in the East Coast. I'm here with Darwin Brandis and we are going to talk to you today about how to make your own green studio. Now if you don't have access to a studio like this or stage like this with a psych wall like this, what are some ideas, creative ideas we can come with to help our viewer. Well Shaun they can get, they can actually buy doodle green fabric at any size, any length that they want. And they can hang it, you can build a metal frame and attach it to that frame and take it wherever you want. But if you would like to build your own, like I said you can purchase the fabric, hang it, make sure you got it all nice and tight at all four corners so you don't have any shadows from your lighting. You could even purchase a lot of plywood, get it nice and smooth, paint it ultra white. Put about 4 or 5 coats of ultra white on it and then you would paint it doodle green. You can purchase digital green paint from a film supply retailers on the Internet at a trade magazine and so forth. I've even seen they have green screen tape too that you can use when you are building your plywood, if you are putting it up together after you've painted it, you can actually line the seems so it's a little bit more seamless and it doesn't let light through correct. Exactly it gives you a good seams so post production crew doesn't have any headaches later. And we always want to not give the post production crew headaches. But if you are looking to do a green screen on a smaller budget here's an example of what you can accomplish. We went out and we got green poster board, ok from a local supply store and then what we did was we took a model and we placed it in front of it. You want to make sure that your poster board is curved just like a psych wall. And then you want to do a three point lighting system so that you have your fill, your back light and your key. And once you do that the best thing to do is to try to eliminate as many shadows as possible. Once you filmed your footage of lets say your spaceship flying through outer space, then you hand it over to the post production team and they will rotorscope out the object and place it in the atmosphere that it needs to be in. Now this is just one little way if you wanted to do something in your little film to cut corners and do a green screen on a budget. Well thank you very much Darwin, we appreciate your time and hope that was some tips and tricks there to make your own green screen studio."