After talking a bit about green screens in class, I had a very quick crack at setting one up at home. The only problem is I don’t have a traditional green screen, so I loaded up a purely green image on my home computer. I didn’t have aspirations to cut something out using the green as the background, instead I wanted to superimpose another video file on top of it. So I set up two cameras, one behind and one to the side and jammed along to a song I have been working on. This was the result:
Clip269 Copy 01 from Gabriel Strachan on Vimeo.
Although I could have probably cropped the secondary video and layered it over the top of the screen, the dimensions didn’t exactly match, so cropping out the green and inserting it as a layer underneath was the go.
– Gabe