FilmmakerIQ.com » Green Screen

Eve Hazelton Lighting and Greenscreen Tutorials

John P. Hess — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:10:46 +0000

The Cinematographer for our favorite Underwater Short Film and Blog (the Underwater Realm), Eve Hazelton, put together three basic lighting tips and tutorials for PhilipBloom.net to illuminate a few basic concepts:

1. In this tutorial created for philipbloom.net, Eve talks you through simple to advanced lighting setups that are easy to achieve and produce beautiful results. She explains simply, how to get the most from your existing lights and some quick tips to create a really impressive shot.

2. Learn how to use Christmas lights, builder’s worklights and even your iPhone to add a little something special to your flm and video work!

3.In the last of three lighting tutorials created for philipbloom.net Eve takes us through the three steps of greenscreen work: How to analyse you background plate to ensure a convincing key, How to light your screen and subject to match the background plate and How to take the foreground and background elements and combine them in Adobe After Effects

For more like this, grab yourself a copy of Eve’s lighting guide DVD on their kickstarter page:

Shooting a Chroma Key Driving Scene

John P. Hess — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:10:53 +0000

Andrew Kramer from Video CoPilot demonstrates a dynamic and interesting production and post techniques for shooting a car interior against a green screen.

DIY Motorized Green Screen Lazy Susan

Dennis — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:05:47 +0000

This DIY project illustrates how to create a table for spinning a person around with a green screen background.

More details here.

Using a front wheel hub which can be purchased brand new for just over $20 dollars, you can create a table that can easily spin several hundred pounds. I haven’t seen anyone take this approach before. Since very little force is needed to move the hub, you can use string to pull it manually. Or it can be motorized with small motors, and can even be pulled with a simple Bicycle inner tube. No matter how much weight you put on there, it moves like butter…

Matte Painting After Effects Breakdown: “I Am Legend Spoof”

Dennis — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:10:27 +0000

The VFX Bro shows you how to change and extend sets using visual effects in After Effects and Cinema 4d.

How to Key Green Screen DSLR Footage in Premiere Pro

Dennis — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:05:49 +0000

Dave Dugdale created this step-by-step green screen tutorial for Premiere CS5. He uses work lights, but he admits in his article that they do a bad job. Having said that. it’s still an informative video.

Zero Budget Zero Gravity

Dennis — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:43:47 +0000

Ben Slotover and Paul Elliott demonstrate how to make weightless objects without CGI, just After Effects and some fishing line.

VIA: Blunt Productions

After Effects Tutorial: Look Ma, No Wires

Dennis — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:35:03 +0000

A clever technique for shooting flying people in front of a green screen without the use of crane and wires. This shot is part of a pilot for a new fantasy comedy show created by Eyal Be and Nimrod Ben Moshe.

Green Screen Video Tutorial

Dennis — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:09:11 +0000

In this green screen video tutorial, they show you how to set-up a green screen for chromakey and the best sell the green screen effect to your viewers.

VIA: videomaker

Folding Reflectors and Backgrounds: A How-to Video Guide

Dennis — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:50:49 +0000

In this how to video, B&H Maven Joey Quintero shows us how to fold up and store an oversized chroma key background, a circular reflector, and a collapsible background.

Products from this Guide:
Collapsible Reflectors
8×16 Collapsible Backgrounds
Other Collapsible Backgrounds

Drawless Animation: 4 Minute Film School

Filmmaker IQ — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:39:41 +0000

From: indymogul – “Drawless Animation!?! Dat don’t make sense!!” – said the hapless yokel. But Rob Shrab, today’s guest professor, proves otherwise. He proves that Drawless Animation is quite possibly the coolest form of video around today; combining cardboard, greenscreen, people, and toys…all with a little hot glue…and that old Indy Mogul sentiment of DO IT YOURSELF.

More Rob Schrab at:

http://www.robschrab.com/