How To Light A Green Screen For Filmmaking | The Ultimate Guide
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- čas přidán 10. 06. 2024
- In this video, I'll show you the best way to light a green screen and achieve a cinematic look. This is the ultimate guide for filmmakers who want to add another layer of creativity to their videos. I'll cover everything from choosing the right light to positioning your camera and talent. So whether you're just starting out or you've been filming for a while, this video will help take your videos up a notch!
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// GEAR IN THIS EPISODE //
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Gemini 1x1 Hard LED bhpho.to/3gnQh4a
Astra 6X Bi-Color LED bhpho.to/3ghwQgt
Double Rainbow 4' Tube LED bhpho.to/3TtImUp
RED Komodo bhpho.to/3f4RgHe
WC Komodo Accessory Kit bhpho.to/2OUwgYM
SmallHD Monitor bhpho.to/3n6xzCO
Teradek Wireless bhpho.to/3n8DyXK
WC Mattebox bhpho.to/3zVUnZr
Anton Bauer V-Mount bhpho.to/3jT6Uav
// GEAR I USE TO MAKE YT VIDEOS //
Panasonic GH5S bhpho.to/2NGupTI
Panasonic G85 bhpho.to/3dJJsal
Canon EF 16-24mm f/2.8 L II bhpho.to/2UfCXU0
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Metabones Speed Booster XL bhpho.to/2GqiWU8
PolarPro 82mm Vari ND Filter bhpho.to/38qltdd
//TABLE OF CONTENTS //
0:00 Intro
1:23 Lighting Your Background
3:12 How To Avoid Spill
4:51 Close Down Your Aperture
6:43 Setup 1 - Fire Scene
9:38 Filmsupply Ad
10:38 Setup 1 - Fire Scene
11:19 Setup 2 - Water Scene
13:24 Setup 3 - Double Exposure
16:07 Setup 4 - Hero Portraits
18:48 TL;DR
// THINGS TO KNOW //
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// #greenscreen #filmmaking #lighting //
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My name is Garrett. I am a full-time commercial producer, part-time film professor, and avid whiskey enthusiast living in Metro Detroit. I began on CZcams to help bridge the technical and financial gap filmmakers face by giving away the same content I talk about in my classrooms. Learn tricks of the trade, discover new gear, stay up with filmmaking trends, dive into how I pull off cinematic looks, and so much more. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
I’m curious, do you ever use green screen in your workflow?
Any suggestions which green screen to buy from amazon?
Yes. Love it. I use it with my komodo. I shoot with HQ and its really easy to pull in resolve. I used to have to comp my old shots at work many a year ago in my vfx days so the new tools are super!
Best greenscreen tutorial! Definetly waiting for part 2!!
Great video Garrett! I film on greenscreen from time to time, and after watching this video I realized I've been doing some things wrong. This is by far the best green screen tutorial I have ever seen.
Excellent ! - I always appreciate youR experience, thouroughness and straight forward presentation. High quality stuff! THANK YOU!
Intro fire af
Excellent! I really appreciate your experience, thouroughness and straight forward presentation. THANK YOU!
Really god video !! Thanks , looking forward to next one
informative, cinematically presented, exactly what I was looking for. thank you
Thanks Garrett, nice video. I've been doing green screen work for more than 20 yrs and still go back and forth on brightness of the screen. A lot of notable professionals have given differing opinions on ratio of talent to screen brightness and total brightness. People have said, if you're using Keylight, the green should be 2-stops below the talent. I've heard many people advocate for 40-50 IRE. Still yet, if you work with scopes, you'll see on the vectorscope that the chroma component on a green screen is usually the strongest at around 75 IRE... so this means you're getting your deepest color sat and purest color here. These numbers are generally REC709 / video style shoots, not Log / film style. I can vouch for Keylight in After Effects working just fine with the green around 50%, but we've been working with Ultimatte 12 recently and it absolutely seems to prefer very bright green, upwards of 75% for the best performance. The higher the saturation the better. So what's the best green screen background brightness? Of course it probably depends on which keyer and your process, but curious what others here prefer.
You mentioned it but want to reaffirm... leveling up your greenscreen shots require a lot of light. We shoot / rate our camera at the lowest ISO to reduce noise (and turn noise reduction in-camera off because it can mess with your edges), which is key for a clean key (sorry for the pun). Add light. We shutter up to about 90 degrees to reduce motion blue for cleaner edges. Add more light. We shoot a smaller aperture to optimize both lens performance and depth of field. Add even more light.
A few more tips I like. Most camera sensors are cleaner (less noise) at 6500K than at 3200K so we always light daylight for chroma key. Green background paper is inferior to a quality green fabric in color quality, which is also not as good as a solid wall with Rosco Chroma Green paint. And if you want to shoot bluescreen instead of green, that chroma key blue color can take a lot more light to get to the brightness you want because it just really sucks up light like a sponge.
-Walter
www.blackburst.net
can we even go under 90 degree a little more to get even less motion blur. if I have enough light. or just 90 degree is the limit
Content given was explained clear and concise. Totally useful. Bravo Brother!
So good! Thank you for the vid.
totally professional and "to the point" video ! 10/10
I can not find the Part Two link ...is there a link?????
Really excellent. I looked at your videos listing and playlist lists. Can’t find Part 2. Is there a link? Thanks. And yes I Liked and Subscribed. Rowby
Amazing! Subscribed.
Love you
God bless
Thanks a lot
Isn't the way to refer to aperture is wide/narrow or opened/closed instead of ''longer'?
Great video!🎥
Thank you!
Love the video. Incredible breakdown. Hit that sub button hard. Currently building green room now.
Vers good. Thanx
Hey. You mention the light has to be very bright. What would be the minimum watt for a 3x3meter green screen? If it can be calculated in that way? :-) I just got the Screen, waiting for 2 35x160cm softboxes but not sure my 2 x slw60 watt will do the jub
@thomaswindfeld728 60w would be really tough to adequately light both the screen and your subject. I would think two 200w fixtures for your screen, then whatever you need to light your foreground would give you enough to play with. You want to focus on even, bright lighting for your background.
@@garrettsammons thank you so much for replying. The 60 W should be for the green screen only.. additionally, I have 150 W and an Amran 300 RGB. So do you think the 60 Ws would be enough for lighting the green screen?? Thanks again.;)