Green screen research task

For this lesson we had to do a research task on what a green screen is and how it works and basically it works by chromakeying. It's a green screen because you don't have any green shades in your body, it used to be a blue screen but they found that you have blue shades in your body as well so they changed it to a green screen. Now though technology is crazy so you can have silver screens, even black screens etc.

Our task was to research green screen films and we came up with a load of them. We came up with iron man, avengers assemble, Thor and harry potter etc. You can see all the others on the pictures below.

For our final task we were then set to think up of a 1 minute film about anything we want at all but part or all of the film has to be filmed in front of a green screen so as you can see in the picture we came up with 2 ideas. One was that a man stumbles across a magic box or a lamp that he bought from a car boot because he thought it looked cool and rubs it. A genie then pops out and he says the man has 3 wishes so the man wishes for gold and to be in a cool location like for example, the northern lights. We then use the green screen to make those scenes come alive and for his final wish he wished he had super speed and he got what he wished for. The genie goes back into the lamp and the box disappears, the man then starts to run at super speed past all the city buildings. This film will be called "Niddala" which is Aladdin spelt backwards. For our second idea it was that a guy has a time machine and travels back to the dinosaurs age where the meteorite struck 65 million years ago and he steals a dinosaur egg with him! Also the time machine is a sand timer and lets him visit the places he goes too from dusk till dawn only.







Above you can see three film examples that use this effect. I will now upload a picture of the green screen versions of these films to blogger as proof.

You can see that what they're standing on is real but everything behind them is totally just one big green screen. What this would have enabled the editors to do is to put a fake (but real looking) digital background behind them.

My second choice was Avengers Assemble. Here is a picture of the Avengers Assemble film in progress with their green screen.

On this picture you can actually see the difference between when the actors were in front of the green screen to when you're watching the finished film. It makes the acting seem even better.

The third and final film example was THOR. Another superhero movie. Here is a picture.