Green Screen

For quite a while now, I've been trying to get a hold of materials that I can use to create a green screen. Needless to say that this has been utterly unsuccessful.

The embodiment of evil, stuck inside
the hideous world of the 70's!

In what was some dumb luck, I stumbled across a few rolls of green wrapping paper which aren't quite the colour I was after, but will do. I went and put the stuff up on the wall in the spare room at my parents which currently only houses toys for the kids and a mattress I sleep on when I crash there.

I stuck it on the wall using some Blu-tac and it is okay.

To the right is a quick test I did with two of my children. I got them to stand in front of the screen whilst I quickly filmed them doing something. Anything.

The test did not have proper lighting, and was done with an incredibly poor camera. It had a lot of grain, and the resolution was at 720x480, so I didn't really have a lot to go with.

The two problems that I have at the moment are the fact that I do not have proper lighting and the fact that if I get some proper lighting, it might cause the paper to reflect it.

This would be bad, as it would defeat the purpose of having a green screen to shoot in front of.

In the next few days, I will be using a much better camera to film in front of it, and see how well it turns out. Hopefully I have solved my green screen problem, and this will do for a cheap method until such time that I can buy a proper kit.

Not bad for $8 worth of wrapping paper, and $2 worth of Blu-tac.