Green Screening For The First Time!

For our evaluation questions we wanted to incorporate as many skills as we could. We have never used a green screen before so thought we should try to use it for our fifth evaluation question.

We set up our green screen and artificial film lighting in our classroom, and placed a chair in the far left of our shot. We chose to put the chair there so we would be sat in the correct position for following the rule of thirds.  This was our filming set up:

Fortunately, green screening is very simple and this was a quick task to complete! To ensure each person could be heard we plugged in a microphone which also helped to cancel out background noise. I had the job of editing our footage and layering green screen shots on top of our film opening was exceptionally easy too! All I had to do was add the green screen shots above the original film opening on iMovie and then select 'Green/Blue Screen'. Selecting this got rid of the green background  and left only us in the shot. However, when editing I realised that a limitation was the window above our filming area which brought natural light into our shot, so you can see in some shots the creases in the green screen. But this wasn't too obvious so we decided to leave it in.