Filming With A Green Screen

I am planning on using trippy, moving backgrounds of swirling colors, and moving clouds in my video, the easiest way i can do this is by using a green screen. This will be the first time that i will be using a green screen, i used youtube tutorials to lear how to do it First i will find a big flat wall, i will use big rolls of bright green paper to make the green background. Ill need to make sure that the lighting is evenly spread all over the subject and the background, the most effective way of doing this is by using 3 point lighting - This is where you put a light shining on the subject, chest area, then 2 other lights shining either side of the subject to illuminate the whole of the background. You can then film your footage.

                                                  This is what Three point lighting looks like

It is essential that you get rid of all creases and shadows on the green screen, so that it has maximum effectivity, and looks smooth. You must also make sure that your actor, or subject doesn't have anything green on them, or else it will become part of the background when you edit it. The reason you Use bright green is because its the least common colour that can appear on a person, and it shows up very clearly behind them.

When editing It in Adobe After Effects i will do the following - After dragging the footage into a new composition, then under effects and presets search for key light, and apply it to the footage. I then use the screen colour dropper tool and select the green background. Then change the view from final result to screen matt, change the colour balance so the background is completely black, and the subject is completely white. Then switch back to final result, and the subject has a nice smooth edge all the way around. You can then create a new background layer, and lay any images or video footage over it, and your green screen effect is done. 

Last year when i did my As piece, i was more limited with what i could do, because i had just got some new video editing software, now i have had a while to get used to it, so i can do better special effects. Also i could never use a green screen, because i had no idea how to key it in, so my skills have developed massively this year, and i can do alot more than ever before. Also with sound editing softwares, this has been a drastic improvement. Last year i could only use Adobe Audition, which is a very basic sound editing software. Now i know how to use FL Studio, which is a proper DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), so i can make better quality tracks. 

Filming In Low Level Light

Half of my music video will be shot at night time, by a campfire, so i have to make sure the lighting is right so you can still see whats happening. Some techniques i will use are:

Bounce boards - These Are large White boards, that i will place just out oof the frame of the camera, so they will reflect the lights given off from the fire back onto the actors, this gives a nice natural glow on their faces, so it doesnt look too artificial. Another piece of harware that will make a significant difference is a camera with a large sensor - this allows it to take in  more light ion the picture.

When i am filming the chase scenes,  i will need to use a portable LED light strip, with very powerful LEDs, however, LED lights often look very artificial, so i will balance it out with some yellow lights, to give it a more natural feel. I can also wait for a night when the moon is really bright, and use that light as a natural advantage.

Another technique i can use is, put some cold LED lights on one side of an actor, so it looks like moon light is shining, then on their other side have the natural yellow campfire light reflecting on them, this mix of cold and warm lighting looks quite interesting, and has an eerie feel to it. In the middle where they meet you can sometimes get a purplish glow, which would work well with my video because its called purple epidemic.

Here is a music video that shows two different teqniques of filming in low level light

My problem was that i didn't have any lights i put up behind the scenes, so i had to turn the ISO up really high on my camera, in effect this causes the image to be really grainy, and not so good quality. 

Storyboard

My storyboard was hand drawn, i had the idea of doing it digitally on a story boarding website, but i find it difficult to draw with a mouse.