Some friends and I are making a movie, made entirely by teens. I am the Producer, animation department, director, legal consultant, and much more. You can imagine that I have a stressful position. We are planing on having a CG scene at the end, but want the people to be real. I already have a 3D model of everything that we need built. I only need two things. 1) a material to use as a "green screen". Do you know any type of fabric or material that we could use as greenscreen. Any suggestions would help. Do you know where we could order greenscreen? 2) I need a digital camera that will allow me to download it's content onto my computer, then edit each of the frames individually, preferably on my editing program. What type of camera should I get. (I would like it to be fairly high quality. (Budget is not much of an issue). Better yet, I would like it if that camera would let me save each frame of the movie as a picture, so I could make it easier to edit in my editing program. Note: I am talking about digital motion cameras. (Like a camcorder, but digital)
Thank you in advance for the advice. Hi there,
first: green screen does not need to be green. You only need a super-bright color that can be picked in later editing, then separated form the objects in the foreground. Typically, a color NOT used by the objects will fit. Blue or green screens are used to keep skin tones unchanged - they are easy to filter out. You only need to have a fabric or foil that will turn back most of the light in that color (i.e. a bright surface) but without any gloss (i.e. matt) so that glares will not appear (they are difficult to filter out). Standard colored paper with high illumination should do.
Second: most current digital cams can record in MPEG, DivX (MPEG4) or MOV formats. All of them can be exported to independent frames if no interleaving is set AND quality is high enough (those formats are based on compression with loss). If quality is set to "low" (for example, SP recording) you may get electronic noise (false-colored dots) that can ruin your pick of the green background...
Have fun!
Alberto |
