I see now that most filmmakers are using the green screen instead of the old blue screen to stage effects shots.
What is the advantage of the green screen over the blue screen?
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Good question, maybe Green is an easier color for the computer to accept?
Green reminds them of all the money they will be making off the gullible, unsuspecting public.
maybe green screen is better for digital filming?
or maybe they just wanted to have the characters in blue and substituted green screen instead so there's no clash.
btw they also have pink screen! :P
I believe that they can use blue, green or black screens to accomplish the desired effect. It all depends on what is being shot and what color it is. At least that is what I gathered from the Hollow Man director's commentary.
Im not sure, but I think that a green screen is more popular because the color green is easyer to work with.There are more shades of green than blue, so it might be easyer to pick a specific shade of green not commonly found in nature and crop it out. But im not sure so I would like to know the real answer too.
Now wouldn't green be better if you are filming a movie like..oh say, "Pirates of the Caribean" now that's a lot of blue in there, won't want to mess up.
Green screen has been around for a while, especially for TV work.
I was a Radio-TV minor in college. Our campus TV station did a weekly sports-talk show featuring the football coach, the usual rah-rah-go-team-spend-all-our-tuition-on-your-pointless-game-we-don't-mind-more-gruel-please type show. I was in the equipment room when I heard yelling and crashing. Our advisor was in the control room having a complete meltdown.
"I told him about it a hundred *&*$@##$ times! No green suits! What does the #($%*@( @(($## wear??? A *$#(%(@#& green suit!"
I had no idea what he was yelling about until I looked at the monitor. The coach was sitting happily in his chair, completely unaware that he was just a floating head and a pair of hands on the TV screen. His suit was close enought to the ChromaKey color to make it disapear.
We almost went ahead with the broadcast like that, but cooler heads prevailed and we dug up an old jacket for the idiot.
Kirk
Any color can be used for keying out, depending on what the characters are wearing. Blue is popular because it appears the least in human skin tones, and I think green is the second least. They used black at some points in S1mone because the actress had a reflective costume.
-----ooo-'U'-ooo------Kilroy was here.
Goon wrote:
>They used black at some points in S1mone because the
> actress had a reflective costume.
A primitive use of black was for THE INVISIBLE MAN back in the 1930s. The actor wore black clothes and stood in front of a black background to create the "invisible" effect.
Aw, Kirk....they should have run that show as was! Can you imagin the rateing boost? Someone would have actualy watched it then!
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Flangepart, if we were anywhere but East Texas we would have. But if we had made an ass of the football coach on tv (he did it plenty enough on his own in real life), the Powers That Be would have canned our advisor before the show finished airing. College football is not to be trifled with in Texas.
Kirk
College football is not to be trifled with in Texas.
I remember doing a contract for a few months in Omaha, Nebraska. Not being a college football fan, I felt like an Unbeliever in the Holy Land