Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Find Out How To Effectively Make Use Of Green Screen In TV Production

By Phillip Guye


The introduction of satellite television has witnessed the digital explosion of TV channels, and broadcasters, production places as well as content producers. This is due to cable tv and direct to home platforms have indeed pushed the frontiers of TV broadcasting past all possible restrictions and that also within a worldwide scale. One of the frequent techniques which are utilized in television show production is that of working with a green screen in the backdrop of the studio room in which a particular program is filmed. This is part of the method of chroma key that deals specifically with the removal of certain images in the backdrop of the shot as well as superimposing this with different image, which is more desirable for the shot. For instance, a person can use a display screen that is green in coloration behind a broadcaster who is reading out the weather condition news flash. While TV audiences sit back and watch the program, the green or maybe blue screen as the case might be, will be obliterated, having a weather chart or scenes of certain places or satellite pictures being shown instead.

A green screen is particularly useful for chroma key applications, on account of the fact that the normal skin tone has very little aspects of green in it. This helps in excellent quality of graphic superimposition as well as replacement of backdrop, devoid of interfering much with the standard view of the broadcaster who may be standing in the foreground. In case there was any kind of green tint or tone in human skin, parts of the body will have become invisible on using the other colored screen, producing the effect quite unusual and very improper and incongruous.

One of the many benefits of using a green screen will be that it's fairly easy to implement and quite economical too. If one were to use a huge plasma or HDTV screen behind the broadcaster, the effects can be amazing, however the cost will be quite prohibitive. In these days of economic depression, in which cost management is paramount, the dice is loaded towards utilizing inexpensive options.

It's possible to very easily make a green screen that can be used in TV program production. For this, something as simple as a table cloth can be used. This cloth must be evenly painted, so that there are no smudges or uneven parts that could stand out once the show runs on air. Anybody can also use a plain wall that is uniformly painted in green to form the colored backdrop. One of many tips to keep in mind when working with such a screen is that if the background image is one of trees or forests, green is often a more suitable shade to utilize than blue for the backdrop, while if the image is of the ocean or sky, green would not be so apt.

Working with a green screen is therefore a highly effective means of making use of chroma key method in TV show production, which is popular because of its simpleness as well as inexpensiveness.




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