Green screen tips

Yeah, ok, it's just "look at me I'm by the seaside but I'm NOT REALLY!".

But there's something satisfying about being able to green screen myself to pretty good effect, just in my bedroom.

Fortunately someone decided that my bedroom walls should be green...



If you're ever in the mood to go green (or blue - those two colours work best) screen yourself - here are a couple of tips I learned from making this:

- Take the time getting the green screen right. If you have something mostly green, with patches of other colour...it just won't work as well.

- The lighting is really important. You want the green screen to be lit, so I just put a couple of lamps behind me and just out of shot. Then you want to be lit - but without casting a big shadow behind you. So I just upped the ambient light in my room with the main ceiling light.

- Don't wear the same colour clothes as the screen! I wore a green jumper, which made it more difficult. Oops.

- Getting the screen and shot right is the most important bit - the rest you can edit later. As for the actual editing - there are plenty of Youtube tutorials! I used Chroma Key. And no, you can't do it in 'Windows Movie Maker'.