Today myself, Chris and danny went to the studios to do a green screen test so we could prepare for the anchor shoot with fran. It turned out that the green screen had been accidentally double booked and so although we booked it first we had to split its use with another group.
We set up lighting and the green screen fairly quickly in lecture theatre 1 and found that this was enough space for walking around within our screen screen setting.
After the 1st test we noticed that the camera quality and lighting were posing a problem. We were using the sony ex and it just wasn't able to produce a sharp enough image and the lighting wasn't even everywhere. Here is the first test to show you:
The 2nd test was with a canon 7d that chris borrowed from Vic, this was much better and provided us with a much higher quality image. Myself and danny did our best to sort out the lighting by setting up one tall light either side of the green screen to balance out the shadows and 1 inline with the camera pointing at the green screen. this set up helped a lot but wasn't perfect, chris said he would be able to work on this lighting problem through his own research and that due to his studio it currently wasn't really a problem anyway. here is the 2nd test:
As you can see the quality in much better.
The issue i had was i asked chris if we would be able to zoom into the studio for a more mid shot as the studio layout made the presenter feel a little small. Chris said this could be a problem but understood what i was looking for, he said he would work on this idea over the next few days before our shoot with fran and should be able to come up with a work around or alternative.
I am really pleased with the way our green screen went, if we hadn't have done it we may have been left with a poor quality video and not what we wanted. Things to improve on for the future would be to learn more about lighting as it is very important and i am still not fully confident with this sort of thing, i understand the 3 point lighting but for something more specific it is difficult and with a small room we can't have 5 or 6 lights and then 7 people working around them as it would be dangerous. I know in the studio tests this was the case but that room is much bigger. I have learnt a lot about green screen from this and also about the cameras we use as i haven't had a chance to use a canon before, but i would like to at some point and can see the difference and benefits and disadvantages a lot clearer now.
Stay safe,
Helen
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